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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums37 deg. on May 14 at 5 AM in NJ, 40 at 9 am, coldest May in my memory
Ain't no problems in the atMOsphere.........
KharmaTrain
(31,706 posts)Yesterday morning it was 36 in the Chicago area and later today they're predicting 85. This is Colorado-type weather.
NRaleighLiberal
(60,014 posts)previous record here was 43....happy lettuce in the garden, but shivering tomato plants (still fine - as long as we didn't hit the un-magical 32!)
Due for a solid week of mid 80s starting tomorrow...
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)A few years ago...2006 or '07...the temps hit 100 on May 1st and did not drop below 90 till fall.
THIS year has been cloudy, rainy and very cool, since Jan.
badtoworse
(5,957 posts)NJCher
(35,667 posts)I had to turn my furnace back on last night. Felt so good--the house temp had gone down to 61. Too cold for me!
Cher
Edim
(300 posts)The Sun is having the weakest cycle since at least a century.
http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/hadcrut4gl/plot/hadcrut4gl/from:2001/trend
http://cio.eldoc.ub.rug.nl/FILES/root/1999/QuatSciRevvGeel/1999QuatSciRevvGeel.pdf
tridim
(45,358 posts)"Sunday morning, we shattered a record low when we dropped to 33°. Today, we look to at least tie the record high of 91°!"
And it snowed last week, in May.