I'm not going to howl about this even as it proves my observations correct:
"August’s cool weather gets a chilly reception; Sweltering beach days are pined for by many" by Billy Baker | Globe Staff August 25, 2014
The weather can’t win.
It has been a summer without much to complain about — no heat waves, not a ton of oppressively hot days.
It has been, quite simply, pleasant.
And therein lies the complaint.
“It’s been a little cooler,” said Caitlin Jarvis, 32, as she caught the fading rays of summer on Carson Beach on Sunday. “I love the beach so I would definitely love hot weather,” she said. “You would think that August would be the warmest month of the summer.”
Weather has a past. How it feels to each person has a lot to do with how they feel about that past. By this time last summer, Boston had 17 days with temperatures above 90 degrees, including a streak of seven in a row that hit in mid-July, according to the Blue Hill Observatory.
This year, the mercury has topped 90 degrees only four times, the least since 1997, according to the National Weather Service.
In between the summers we had that winter. The one that felt like it would not end. The one where the mean temperature was 27.3 degrees. The one that dropped 81.6 inches of snow, more than 3 feet of snow above the average.
The one that burned the term “polar vortex” onto the psyche. Yeah, that one.
That winter erased memories of the oppressive summer.
Maybe Baker been getting baked too much. Didn't erase mine.
But this summer, according to many, has not managed to do the reverse, and as we arrive at the end, with kids going back to school and sweaters coming out of the closet, there is a sense that pleasant was not quite what we needed.
“I like those summers where we get a week where it’s 100 degrees,” said Annie Carter, 34, of Jamaica Plain, as she watched her daughter and some friends catching hermit crabs on Carson Beach last week. “I’m OK with the summer being too hot.”
So she likes the planet being ruined by the global warming that is not happening?
“But this,” she said, with the sun shining and the sea breeze coming in off Dorchester Bay, “is nice.”
As far as temperature goes, this summer has been fairly average. June and July were each .7 degrees above normal, while August has been 2 to 5 degrees cooler on average as compared with past Augusts, according to National Weather Service meteorologist Matt Doody.
I've noticed because my temperatures are taken when I go to get a Globe in the morning via the dew on the car. Stuff was here way too early this year.
There are, certainly, many upshots to this unfamiliar thing, this “pleasant wave,” if you will.
“It’s not too humid, so it’s good hair weather,” Dava Berman, 26, of Somerville, said last week while the wind, as if on cue, swept her blond locks into the breeze.
Her friend, Connie Shaheen, 26, said there was another upshot, because she works at a hotel. “It hasn’t been wicked hot, so the guests haven’t been complaining,” she said. “Normally, they blame us like it’s our fault.”
Yeah, AmeriKans are real a$$holes!
Weather has a past. And it has a future, and that is part of the problem.
I always thought of weather as something you live with, but.... a problem?
What feels cool and pleasant now can trigger fear of what’s to come. Last week, that fear got a diagnosis when The Old Farmer’s Almanac came out.
The "fear" is they are ALWAYS MORE ACCURATE than agenda-pushing propaganda pre$$.
Aside from that, look at 'em! FEAR the WEATHER! As soon as you wake up FEAR!!
The almanac predicts a “super-cold” winter for the eastern two-thirds of the country. “Colder is just almost too familiar a term,” Janice Stillman, the editor, told the Associated Press. “Think of it as refriger-nation.”
I'm going to love seeing the fart-mi$ters explain that as I angrily shovel snow.
Notice something missing from the equation?
Until then, we have August. Good old, I-can’t-believe-it’s-almost-over August.
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The rest of the week will see a warming trend, the meteorologist said. Wednesday will see the warmest temperatures in the upper 80s, but there is a chance for showers or thunderstorms in the evening.
But by Friday, temperatures are expected to cool as we begin the final march toward fall, and everything we know is beyond....
And the 13th anniversary of 9/11 with ISIS inside the U.S.
A new false flag might warm things up, huh?
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Related:
"Methane bubbling up off the East Coast" New York Times August 25, 2014
NEW YORK — Scientists have discovered methane gas bubbling from the seafloor in an unexpected place: off the East Coast of the United States where the continental shelf meets the deeper Atlantic Ocean.
I'm sure humans caused it somehow.
The methane is emanating from at least 570 locations, called seeps, from near Cape Hatteras, N.C., to the Georges Bank southeast of Nantucket.
In a paper published online Sunday in the journal Nature Geoscience, the scientists, including Adam Skarke of Mississippi State University and Carolyn Ruppel of the US Geological Survey, reported evidence that the seepage had been going on for at least 1,000 years.
They said the depths of the seeps suggested that in most cases the gas did not reach the atmosphere but rather dissolved in the ocean, where it could affect the acidity of the water, at least locally.
But methane is a potent, if relatively short-lived, greenhouse gas, so the discovery should aid the study of an issue of concern to climate scientists: the potential for the release of huge stores of methane on land and under the seas as warming of the atmosphere and oceans continues.
Sigh.
Of course, global warming also cools the economy (that doesn't make $en$e).
Methane seeps occur in many places, but usually in areas that are tectonically active, like off the West Coast of the United States, or connect to deep petroleum basins, as in the Gulf of Mexico.
Ruppel said that at about 40 of the seeps — those in water depths exceeding 3,300 feet — the methane may be migrating up through the sediments from deeper reservoirs of the gas. Further studies would be needed to confirm this, she said.
PFFFFFFFFFT!
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Wouldn't that be making ocean water warmer, never mind the methane released by fracking?
Also see: State of emergency declared after Calif. quake
Methane cause that, too?
Another California explosion:
"Suspect in Los Angeles-area shootings arrested" Associated Press August 25, 2014
LOS ANGELES — Police say a suspect in shootings that left three people dead and four others injured in the northern suburbs of Los Angeles has been taken into custody.
Sgt. Frank Preciado says a suspect was taken into custody following a Sunday night standoff at a house in Sylmar.
No further details were released pending a police news conference scheduled later Sunday.
Police said the shootings happened within the span of an hour in the San Fernando Valley area, and that the random attacks may have been carried out by the same gunmen.
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