It is gonna be a cold winter.

[Danke]

Hot and humid here this morning. And a lot of short Injun looking people crowding the place.

 

[Suzanimal]

HOT! I ran errands and came home and jumped in the pool to cool down. It looks like we're going to get some rain and cooler weather next week.

 

[devil21]

Anybody else noticing trees already shedding leaves like it's the start of autumn?

 

[Danke]

What part of the country is that?

 

[devil21]

NC. My giant willow oak is dropping leaves like it's October and various other trees (mostly other oak varieties) around the area are shedding leaves early, also. I saw a quick headline on yahoo front page saying that season changes are being caused, of course, by humans. I should have read the article but didn't. It's almost August, usually by far the hottest part of the year in the SE but the July/August temps were in June/July and now temps are forecast to not break high 80's for the forecastable future. It's like the seasons have shifted forward 1-2 months.

 

[Suzanimal]

Anybody else noticing trees already shedding leaves like it's the start of autumn?

Nope.

 

[heavenlyboy34]

Now that you mention it, the nights and early mornings have been cooler than usual this time of year. Daytime weather is typical, though. *sunny and hot*

 

[oyarde]

Hot and humid here this morning. And a lot of short Injun looking people crowding the place.

I used to be taller but I have worked so hard in my lifetime I have lost a couple inches in my spine . I should probably have my own massage parlor but Mrs O would not like it . She is just mean like that .

 

[Jan2017]

So, are we back to Global Warming or are we still on Climate Change?

We are entering a Grand Solar Minimum.

Solar minima are not generally correlated with changes in climate but recent studies have shown a correlation with regional weather patterns.
Solar minimum is contrasted with the solar maximum, where there may be hundreds of sunspots. (Wikipedia)

My overall take is that cloud formations have been "intense" and impressive this summer.

 

[devil21]

Solar minima are not generally correlated with changes in climate but recent studies have shown a correlation with regional weather patterns.
Solar minimum is contrasted with the solar maximum, where there may be hundreds of sunspots. (Wikipedia)

My overall take is that cloud formations have been "intense" and impressive this summer.

I don't put any stock into what Wiki says. What a Grand Solar Minimum does is weakens the magnetic field of the planet, which usually blocks/deflects UV, and particularly UV-C (the really, really bad one). UV readings are up, and sometimes WAY up, in the northern and southern parts of the planet where the magnetic field is traditionally the weakest. This is the feeling that you're being cooked in the sun while it's not very hot. Also why SPF is rising. I saw an ad for 100 SPF the other day. Dunno about you but growing up all that was needed was 25 to avoid burn. Now it's 50 at the minimum.

Reminds me of this:


A bit of a heads-up from tinseltown perhaps?

 

[Jan2017]

I don't put any stock into what Wiki says.

I try to always acknowledge it as a source being used jus' because it is so "dicey" and should be taken with a "grain of salt"

Ionosphere data from the solar eclipse last year is still getting analyzed (see August 2018 Sky and Telescope) -
it IS part of the weather equation most probably certainly, and considering the upcoming 11-year cycle solar minimum of 2019-20 is interesting.

 

[Suzanimal]

No Grand Solar activity in my neck of the woods. It's been raining cats and dogs since Tuesday night and my tan is suffering. Of course, Danke is too busy posting about breasts to do something.

 

[Suzanimal]

Still raining. I found my son in the pool in the pouring down rain wearing the foam hat from the Woody costume he had as a kid to keep the rain out of his face.

 

[Suzanimal]

This is the first I've seen of the sun since Tuesday afternoon.

 

[Zippyjuan]

Lots of sun in the Western half of the country. Water off our coast here just hit a record high temperature. July average temp was fifth highest ever.

 

[oyarde]

69 degrees here this morning when I drove into town . I'll take it .

 

[Suzanimal]

Sunny & Hot

It's suppose to rain Wed & Thurs. I kinda hope it's still nice enough for Mr A to play golf. He's been underfoot a bit lately and he needs to get out from under me. I kid you not, I'm trying to work on My True Calling and he plants his ass right where I've set up and decides to nap. He's worse than a fucking cat.

 

[oyarde]

Rained last night , today and supposed to every day through Sat except Thurs. I sanded muh deck off today with an angle grinder with a wire wheel on it and blew it off and am ready to paint it with this Cabot gue deck stain stuff but I need some dry days . I have work to do but that stuff takes a long time to dry. On the bright side it has been cooling off at night and the humidity may drop to 82 percent tonight . It does not get too bad until lunch . Everything is wet all the time , like summer of 2015 .

 

[Suzanimal]

THANK THE GLOBAL WARMING GODS!

I was worried rain was moving in after some nasty sounding thunder woke me up last night but it was a beautiful morning and Mr A split early to play golf. Honestly, I think part of the reason we've managed to stay together so long is because we rarely see each other. Before we got married, we only had 4 days off together in town and two of them were the two days before our wedding. Mr A had to get me up to date on how the wedding was going down. The only part I played in the planning of the wedding was taking 20 minutes to pick out a dress at the JCPenny outlet store. I didn't even buy wedding shoes, I wore my keds under my dress, lol. Mr A and my mom did everything else.

 

[oyarde]

I got a lot of work done today in the tropical rainforest pause in rains . Really a lot of this is stuff Danke should offered to help me with before now . I am expecting the rains to resume by tomorrow evening .