The National Weather Service says 2009 has seen the coldest July since the official recording station was moved away from the lakefront in 1942. The average temperature this month in Chicago has been a mere 68.9 degrees.
Even in the years before 1942, when the National Weather Service recorded temperatures at the cooler lakefront, there are only three years that had colder Julys through the 26th.
There have also been far more days than usual with high temperatures less than 80 degrees this year. In 2009, there were 13 days where the temperature did not exceed 80 degrees. Only three Julys in the past 67 years have had more days in Chicago with highs less than 80 – there were 18 such days in 1992, and 14 in 1996 and 2000.
We have also failed to reach 90 degrees at any time this month.
Summer in Chicago link
On the local scene we had one of the coldest winters and a cold wet spring that delayed planting, my garden included. About two weeks ago we hit a cool spell and tomatoes stopped ripening on the vine. My okra is producing at about half normal and no new pepper pods are forming, the blooms are just falling off.
A week ago my wife demanded the heat be turned on because the house was so chilly.
And we live in the southeast.
Yet the Idiot the idiots elected and the many idiots in Congress have passed a bill to increase the cost of energy because man is causing the earth to warm.
What unadulterated bull shit.
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