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Title: Chill out! July coolest on record
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Journal Gazette
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Published: Aug 1, 2009
Author: Holly Abrams
Post Date: 2009-08-01 13:35:07 by Esso
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Chill out! July coolest on record This July will go into the record books as the coolest for this region [Fort Wayne] in recorded history. Only four days during the month reached average or above-average temperatures. The lower-than-normal temperatures were recorded across parts of northeast Indiana, southwest Michigan and northwest Ohio, according to the northern Indiana office of the National Weather Service. Final temperature statistics for July will be tallied today, but Friday’s high temperature of 79 degrees was a continuation of the unusual summer season. A pool of cool, low pressure that remained over the Fort Wayne area is the cause for the unseasonably cool month, according to Mark Steinwedel, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service. Through July 29, the average overall temperature has been 68.9 degrees, 4.5 degrees below normal. The highest temperature this month was 87 degrees on July 10; the lowest temperature was 49 degrees on July 14. The average daily high in July should be 84 or 85 degrees for Fort Wayne. “It’s the coolest as long as records have been taken in Fort Wayne,” Steinwedel said. “It was a surprise that it was so persistent. We had basically the same weather pattern the entire month.” Lower-than-normal temperatures are expected to continue through the first half of August, Steinwedel said. If that proves true, it could affect corn crops, said Gonzalee Martin, agricultural agent for the Allen County Purdue University Extension Office. “At this point, I don’t really see a problem yet,” he said. “It all depends on what happens in the month of August. Some crops have a tendency to favor this kind of weather.” Among the crops that could benefit are soybeans, Martin said. Despite the cooler temperatures, the Fort Wayne Parks and Recreation Department reported that city pool attendance was up about 15 percent in July, according to Perry Ehresman, deputy director. Northside Pool has seen the greatest increase in attendance. Normally 10,000 to 11,000 people visit the pool each month. Attendance was up by 1,500 in July, Ehresman said. Whenever the high temperature is forecast to be less than 80 degrees, the pools offer special “Dollar Days” admission for $1 a person. So far this year, there were 20 dollar days – up from the typical six to eight seen in July, Ehresman said. The Dollar Days have led to a decrease of about 15 percent in revenue from pool admissions this year. Meanwhile, the Salvation Army’s Operation Cool Breeze gave out about half as many fans and air conditioners as it did last July, according to Timothy Smith, social-service director for the Salvation Army. This July, only 21 were given out, he said. According to the National Weather Service’s preliminary figures, the average high in July was 79.2 degrees, and Fort Wayne had 4.22 inches of rain.
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#1. To: Esso (#0)
Holly should get her frigid buns down to south central Texas.
You should see Wal Mart and others, aisles full of A/C and fans. No takers. Temp most days struggles to get into low 70s. I worry bout this WINTER. thinking of moving to ole Mheieco.
Anywhere along our Gulf Coast (the Redneck Riviera) should keep you toasty warm this winter.
Brrrrrrrrrrrr- ak !
Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed. I do not ask that you place hands upon the tyrant to topple him over, but simply that you support him no longer; then you will behold him, like a great Colossus whose pedestal has been pulled away, fall of his own weight and break in pieces. De La Boétie
You don't like You ol' horndog, you!
Shame on Lod. I hope Mrs. Lod not see that.
No need to move. Just stay put for a few years and you will be in Mexico.
Yeah, I was just thinking about that the other day. It may be a rough one.
91 and feels like 95 right now...and still, dry as the proverbial bone. 78 counties around us have applied for disaster farm and ranch relief cash.
Global cooling stopped somewhere between here and Austin. Ask the Austinites if it's warm enough for them. Here in the NE corner of the state, we just concluded a cooler-than-average month with about 15 inches of rain. And it is pouring down rain again as I type this.
“I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.” - Sam Houston
As a 'rule of thumb,' Waco is the separation city - Jerusalem on the Brazos.
What's that going to do to me this winter? I don't want to get my punky frostbit.
I love global cooling. 83 during the day and 65 at night. The mornings and evenings are wonderful.
hottest ever in Austin!
95 and feels like 98, as I peck.
Electric 139.31 (Thanks to Radiant Barrier) Water 195.09 (Thanks to trying to keep the trees and stuff alive) Wastewater 67.04 Misc. fees, charges brought the total bill to 433.55 Considering this unholy heat and drought, I was pleasantly surprised.
We have rain nearly every day. Lawn guy could not mow a large part today because too wet.
Everything here is beautiful lush green. Very abnormal. I will say, just perhaps the sinning going on in Texas has finally caught up with the sinners????? I figger you would be a good person to address that concern???? hehehehehe
This year should make everyone believers in weather modification/manipulation. bass turds.
They dont like the long winters here. We have some but still manageable.
Cyni - It's too hot to even think about sinning here.
Hickville Energy Bill - Electric ...$120 Water ...None Wastewater...None Misc....NONE charges brought the total bill to 120.00 I wanted to ruin your day.
Solar activity is extremely low. My climatologist friend Timo has been tracking and comparing current solar activity with historical information. Cycle 23 extended to 12.5 months. This is much longer than the "normal" 11 months. Cycle 24 is not only late but very quiescent. Most agree that we are heading into a cooling phase comparable with the Dalton Minimum. Solar activity has actually dropped below even the Dalton Minimum and the hope is that we are not sliding into another Maunder type Minimum. Add to this the fact that both the PDO (Pacific Decadal Oscillation) and the ENSO (El Nino Southern Oscillation) have both entered a cooling phase and I think it is safe to say it is going to get cold. Sadly we will get no more reports from Timo as he has announced he is dying of cancer. His loss will be felt much like the chill he has forecast.
As I've mentioned countless times before, were it not for Mrs.L, and all her family around us, I would be so gonzo from here, I cannot tell you.
Sad news from your friend. Hopefully, he will be headed to a much, much better place.
My electric was $68 dollars - mid June to mid July. Water is tucked into my condo assc. bill, but I'd guess $30-$40 If I wanted real cold water, I'd go to the bottom of the nearest mountain, find a stream, and let it run into my Berkey for purification. Gotta love the sticks.
I'm looking forward to it. Homey don't do winter.
Anti-racism is code for white genocide
City slicker. Water runs by my house in small creek, umpteen of gallons a day.
I have been hoping to hit the lottery so could buy Australia and spend winters there.
ping
#2. To: Lod, Esso (#1)
#3. To: Cynicom, Esso, all (#2)
I worry bout this WINTER. thinking of moving to ole Mheieco.
#4. To: Esso (#0)
SAVE US O'BOINGO!!!!!!!
#5. To: Lod (#1)
Holly should get her frigid buns down to south central Texas.
global warming climate change?
"If, from the more wretched parts of the old world, we look at those which are in an advanced stage of improvement, we still find the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry, and grasping the spoil of the multitude. Invention is continually exercised, to furnish new pretenses for revenues and taxation. It watches prosperity as its prey and permits none to escape without tribute." --Thomas Paine, Rights of Man, 1791
#6. To: Lod (#1)
Holly should get her frigid buns down to south central Texas.
Mike Flaherty: Yeah, it's been there a long time. I wish I knew which corner.
My Man Godfrey (1936)
#7. To: Esso (#6)
#8. To: Cynicom (#2)
I worry bout this WINTER. thinking of moving to ole Mheieco.
#9. To: Cynicom (#2)
I worry bout this WINTER.
Mike Flaherty: Yeah, it's been there a long time. I wish I knew which corner.
My Man Godfrey (1936)
#10. To: farmfriend, Esso, Cynicom, all (#5)
#11. To: Esso, Lod (#0)
"If, from the more wretched parts of the old world, we look at those which are in an advanced stage of improvement, we still find the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry, and grasping the spoil of the multitude. Invention is continually exercised, to furnish new pretenses for revenues and taxation. It watches prosperity as its prey and permits none to escape without tribute." --Thomas Paine, Rights of Man, 1791
#12. To: Esso (#0)
#13. To: Sam Houston. weather bugs here (#12)
#14. To: farmfriend (#11)
Mike Flaherty: Yeah, it's been there a long time. I wish I knew which corner.
My Man Godfrey (1936)
#15. To: Esso (#0)
There's no place better thanTurtle Island.
#16. To: Esso (#0)
#17. To: christine. all (#16)
#18. To: All (#17)
Austin Energy Bill -
#19. To: Lod (#10)
#20. To: Lod (#10)
#21. To: Cynicom. all (#19)
#22. To: winston_smith (#8)
#23. To: Cynicom. all (#20)
#24. To: Lod (#18)
#25. To: Esso, Lod, Original_Intent, Buckeroo (#14)
"If, from the more wretched parts of the old world, we look at those which are in an advanced stage of improvement, we still find the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry, and grasping the spoil of the multitude. Invention is continually exercised, to furnish new pretenses for revenues and taxation. It watches prosperity as its prey and permits none to escape without tribute." --Thomas Paine, Rights of Man, 1791
#26. To: Cynicom. all (#24)
#27. To: farmfriend (#25)
#28. To: Cynicom (#24)
#29. To: Cynicom (#2)
I worry bout this WINTER. thinking of moving to ole Mheieco.
#30. To: Jethro Tull (#28)
If I wanted real cold water, I'd go to the bottom of the nearest mountain, find a stream, and let it run into my Berkey for purification.
#31. To: Prefrontal Vortex (#29)
#32. To: Esso, *Agriculture-Environment* (#0)
but the sheiks would shriek and the barons would bellow if hemp was made legal...and people became mellow
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