enjoy cool damp spring weather.
I long for summer.
Looking around the garden, I suspected it’s been cooler than normal lately. But then, I know I always think late May and Early June are cool.
Today, I got confirmation from WGN’s weather man, Tom Skilling who wrote:
The cloudy, chilly and rainy open to June here has been the talk of the town. So far this June is running more than 12 degrees cooler than last year, and the clouds, rain and chilly lake winds have been persistent. The average temperature at O’Hare International Airport through Friday has been only 59.5 degrees: nearly 7 degrees below normal and the coldest since records there began 50 years ago.
Twelve degrees! Twelve degrees!
For you non-US types worrying about truly me freezing my sit-upon off, that 12F. It’s only 6.7C to people outside the US.
In response to those who will remind me this is only weather: Of course.
Lawn Haiku
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The sun is missing.
Showers fall from the gray sky.
My grass is knee-high!
When talking weather and plants: here I’m sitting in the middle of Europe in June, with my thick sweater on. Last week the outside temperatures were around 11 C which made the room temperature 17-19 C, but the central heationg period is over, so it’s sweaters and afghans time.
I was even forced to find the bottle of Christmas mulled wine and make two glasses of this hot drink for me and my husband. I don’t remember doing that in June! That was usually a sangria time…
We have here also very rainy weather and I must say that grass and trees are of very nice and lush green. Especially the hosta plants similar to the Lucia’s at the above pic that I saw this afternoon in the Prague Botanical garden were thriving.
Sunday morning java
Coffee maker is on the fritz
Headed for McDonalds :/
Andrew
The summer will come
When Gavin’s models say so.
Until then, stay warm!
Finally today, it hit 80F. I’m not surprised by Tom Skilling’s summary of the weather. Brutal winter, cold spring, cool summer. Personally I’m amazed that the global weather is registering positive anomalies, but that is simply based on my observations of my own little slice of the world.
Houston this June:
Grass dry roasting
Wind humid and hot
Hoping for a rain
hunter–
I’d be happy to send you 30% of our march-june rain. We’ve had tons this year.
lucia,
Thank you very much. My neighbors and I- and our poor gardens- would be happy to have you do just that. This is easily the strongest June heat wave in memory, and I have lived here since 1963.
Here at the sit-upon end of the world in Cape Town it is cold, raining harder than we have had in years, after a short summer and an endless, cold, wet 2008 winter. Either the world is cooling or I am getting very old.
A consolation is the fun and education I get from The Blackboard.
Me thinks that in general, the Scandinavians have decided to no longer go on with the charade and are adjusting realistically..
http://arctic-roos.org/observations/satellite-data/sea-ice/ice-area-and-extent-in-arctic
also DMI
http://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/icecover.uk.php lets see in the USA ice monitors realize this the sooner the better.
vg–
It’s odd right now. How the ice is doing depends on whose graphs we view.
As far as sea ice goes JAXA hasn’t updated since the 11th.
I observed that the Danish Met is using 30% ice cover (presumably to count as ice in one pixel) while Nansen (and others ) use 15%.
We should also check what baseline period the anomalies are conmpared to.
Cassanders
In Cod we trust
Not exactly a Haiku, but…
♫ The… wheels on the bus are falling off
falling off
falling off
The wheels on the bus are falling off
la la la la ♫
Andrew
We should have some sea ice brownie bets this year. I’d still put my money (or brownies) on it being at least the third lowest on record.
Zeke– I need to pick a service. They all disagree?!
I suspect it will be low. After all…. why not?
JAXA is back up for those who’re interested.
Lucia, this alleged coolness you seem to be experiencing is certainly not statistically significant, and the alleged effect of the coolness may not even be real. Are you 100% certain there is no other explanation but lower-than-normal outside ambient air temperature for this alleged sense of coolness?
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In any event, these episodes of alleged coolness must be reported continuously for the next thirty years, and the raw data must be examined and adjusted by qualified climate scientists, before any series of these episodes could be labeled as anything more than simple weather noise.
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I also have an sort-of-off-topic question for you: In the Year 2039, do you expect you will still be using Excel to plot these alleged coolness trends, or will you have migrated to R by that time?
Scott–
I don’t know if I will be migrating to R.
Is there any alleged coolness in Tri-Cities? As for reporting the alleged coolness, I have also reported alleged high winds and, back before I was blogging, I posted comments reporting alleged warmness in November.
We haven’t had many unusual heat waves in Chicago since I began blogging about climate. El Nino is coming, so maybe we’ll have one this summer. I mow the lawn, so I’ll be happy to complain in public.
Yes, there is alleged coolness here. But not nearly of the same magnitude as the alleged coolness in Chicago. We do have lots of weather noise around here, especially when the wind blows. (Or maybe the noise is actually from all those windmills on the ridges south of town.)
Scott,
We’ll we’ve had lots of alleged rain here. In fact, allegations of rain are sufficient for me to allege that portions of my yard look the way yards in Richland look when the sprinkler pipes leaked.