Is the weather in your area is changing in any discernible way to you?

This question is probably better suited to people who have lived in a particular area for a length of time, or maybe who go to the same place on a regular basis.

I think that the weather where I am - Mid Atlantic coastal Virginia is a bit cooler overall, less humid and rainier than what I would typically expect and I have noticed this over the last 2 summers.

..... but the real weather pattern that's struck me over the last five years or so are the generally much milder winters, with a few exceptions.

about the cooler summer. I think the last few winters have been colder and snowier than they had been for a number of years, though.

But I remember going to Belle Isle a few Januarys ago and it was 70+ degrees.

it's been mostly the last couple of years that have been bad.

i like the picture of nancy ....

They were going to have her back, but haven't yet.

Stay tuned for Nancy news in the next month or so.

my pansy pots drowned and then got infested with snails, slugs, and earwigs.

and this summer has been odd - very, very rainy, a tiny bit cooler than usual, and remarkably low humidity.

Until this week, when the clamminess came on BIG TIME, and we are deep in the sticky heat that defines Washington in the summer.

How do all those tourists do it? I have never understood it.............

Summer has been wetter and cooler. Tomorrow is August 1 and we have not yet had a day where the temperature reached 90.
Here's a link to a NY TImes article on how cool and wet our summer has been. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/01/nyregion/01hot.html?ref=nyregion

Seattle on the other hand has had an unusually hot summer. They had record snow last winter.

Though we did get rain today (violent T-storms). We are classified as subtropical. We were record low in later May (53, I think it was) and within the first couple of weeks In June we were at about 105. Average summer highs would be about 97. We've been up to about 108.

...here is how the rest of the world did for June (July will be out in a few days when all the data is collected):

The last time it was 100 degrees in Seattle was the day I was born. Our summers are hotter, the winters feature much more snow (we were snowed in at home for almost two weeks last December,) and yeah, things are getting a little weird around here. We won't even discuss the fact that the Seattle area had a Cat 3 hurricane (cleverly disguised as a "windstorm") two years ago.

We also live in the Cascade foothills, which is a fancy term for "worst weather in the region".

as it was non-tropical. We get windstorms every few years that can gust to hurricane force wind speed in some areas. If you were born in '94 (last time we hit 100 degrees) you missed the Inauguration Day storm of '92 which was quite severe.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanukkah_Eve_Wind_Storm_of_2006

We're very familiar with the Inauguration Day storm as well.

Puget Sound Energy's internal documents stated that the Hanukkah Eve windstorm was a Cat 3 hurricane. We live in Duvall; the Snoqualmie Valley functioned as a huge wind tunnel. There were people in the area that did not get power back for over two weeks. We were lucky enough to get ours back December 23rd...

Born and raised in Wa. Spent 40 years there.
Used to laugh at the South when a 90 mph "hurricane" was declared, as i watched 120 mph gusts blow trees down around me in our storms.
but
The snows in Seattle used to come every 3-4 years, rarely over 2 feet, only for 3 days or so, then rains came and washed it all away, and I never experienced heat AND humidity
like you guys are getting now, on the Puget Sound side.
Meanwhile, down here in Ala, my new home for a long time now, we had wet spring and suddenly June 1 it hit 90 plus and stayed there till this week. This after 3 years of drought.
:shrug:

a normal July. It's been cold. We've gotten cold fronts. It's rained. It's raining right now. It has rained here where I am four out of the past five days and been mostly overcast and relatively cool for the past week. Probably the coolest July I can remember. Usually this time of year we are getting 60-70+ days in a row of 100+° heat. This summer has barely managed to produce 5 days straight of excessive heat. Yesterday morning it was 70° and low humidity. June wasn't normal either. Everyone is talking about the weather here and it's not small talk this time.

Austin just finished its hottest July EVER. over 20+ days of 100+, starting in JUNE

rain can't penetrate the heat bubble...record drought..

and you're near DFW, cold and wet

it's like bizarro world

basically the same thing as you, that there seems to be a line running west to east and running through Waco that divides the heat you're experiencing from the strange weather we've been having here. It has been raining steadily here for the past 3-4 hours. As far as I know, we are also not in a drought, though we may be a little on the dry side.

I'm in Houston County, and the rain comes down from Dallas to the SE. It blows through Anderson County (Palestine), 20 miles to the north of me, and blows to the east. The counties east of the Neches River have had lots of rain and floods. The rain stops at the southern county line of Anderson County.

Strange.

The high temps started in the middle of june - the 100 degree plus days. Usually we don't get those til the end of July. It's been in the 90s, still really hot, and quite humid, but very little rain.

Heat index is usually between 95 - 105. Yuck.

we are getting days in the low 90s, usual midsummer atmospheric volatility, almost daily rain, overall decent enough weather compared to the long string of 95 - 100 degree days in june, when the high pressure dome sat on top of us.

still, it's often at least 8-10 degrees cooler than houston here and we're only 100 miles away.

an interesting article about regional climate change in texas:

http://www.ucsusa.org/assets/documents/global_warming/gulfcoast.pdf

tornado touched down about 100 yards from my house on June 17th also had hail damage that day and I will get new shingles in a couple weeks. I am still fighting with the insurance company for payment. We had another hail storm about 10 miles from here last week it stripped all leaves from the trees and left a couple inches of hail on the ground. July has been the coldest in recorded history around here this year. We haven't had one 90º day, the highs the last several weeks have running in the 70's, lows at night in the 50's.

we are on track for the wettest period (17 months so far) since records were started.

We've had rain, rain and more rain. It's do wet and damp that there are frogs on my deck and my dog's afraid to go out. I have yet to use the air conditioner (this part I like).

Broke the alltime high by four degrees wednesday.

Mount Ranier, which you can see from Seattle, is now a barren rock, most of the glaciers are melted.

...the last 3 years. Everyone around here thinks the weather has gone nuts. The strangeness has went into overdrive starting this spring. It got to summer-like warmth so fast in March that all the snow was melted very fast, we even got a couple of severe THUNDERSTORMS!!! Mixed with lots of rain and the result was this spring's record flooding. Then when it started flooding winter returned with a vengeance, too, with 2 blizzards in rapid succession. Since then the weather has been a lot cooler than usual, and dry as well.

degrees tonight with no humidity. It's been like that for a while. Wednesday it was 78 degrees and felt like 95 because the humidity was so high.

During the past decade the hosta began to emerge earlier and earler, they used to begin to emerge in May and now they're fully leafed out in May. The whiteflies are much worse.

The birds have their offspring out of the nests earlier and the bluebirds will raise 2 groups of offspring in the same year.

2 or 3 yrs. ago it had hit the low 90's and then frost Easter. Last year and this year in July it goes from being hot to cool rather quickly and it's been like a monsoon here the past 3 days, but then it has warmed up quickly. The winters have been much warmer than when I was a kid, with a few intense cold snaps, but overall warmer with hardly any snow anymore. We seem to be having more super cell storm bursts in the spring and early summer, followed by another round in Oct. and Nov. We also seem to be getting more wind and rain from hurricanes, which is mind boggling to me.

The weather has seemed more erratic the past 3-4 yrs. :shrug:

coolish spring and early summer -- very hot and humid now.

My daughter's in Boston and I know they've also had a lot of rain --

But, on the other hand, we've had the wettest July in recent recorded history here in Ottawa.

We're CELEBRATING the second day without rain.

Seattle out for the quarter. The water table in parts of Maryland (including here where I live in College Park) was at a record high. On the other hand, I heard this week one day it was 103 degrees in Seattle. I thought when I heard this we have Seattle's weather, and it has ours.

Sam

I had 48 this morn, that is not normal. Rain is okay, but the temps suck.

It's the Summer that never was here.

And while I have lost some metrics (I stopped vegetable-gardening some years ago), I still generally live pretty close to the effects of weather.

But a decent treatment would take many words, and I wouldn't be able to restrain myself from going on about one of favorite theories.

So just a few highlights: a persistent drought (yet, because the last two winters it snowed disproportionately (as a proportion of total precipitation), the drought isn't as bad here as down below: rain tends to run off, water from melting snow to penetrate more deeply); unseasonal weather (eg, warmest fall I've ever experienced here; I burnt little wood until the end of november); and weather more towards the extremes (colder winter episodes; summer nights (at least) that seem hotter... which I attribute to... ) and unpredictable (2 30"+ snow-events, when one is relatively rare; and the first one very early for snow that heavy).

When I was first forced to move here about 25 years ago, there was a clear pattern. Summers meant afternoon thunderstorms--every single day. Come 3 or 4 o'clock, the clouds built high enough that they just erupted, and after an hour or so it cleared and life went on, just in time to make the early-evening mosquitoes happy. I can't remember the last time it was like that. Summer and winter are becoming more fire season than anything. When the pine hammocks burn, the roots can smolder for months and flare up at the slightest provocation, in addition to lightning, cigarette butts, careless campers, and the ever-popular arson.

We've been running at a rainfall deficit for much of the time I've lived here and make it up when we get hurricanes, which doesn't help in the long term. The only plus is that in the last couple years, the Everglades got low enough that the state was able to come in with heavy machinery and scoop out tons of crap that was choking the ecosystem--creating a stockpile of free fertilizer and a much cleaner swamp when it fills back in.

Even worse, I rely on my family back in IA to share with me come morel season and the weather up there has been screwed up equally badly and I'm lucky if anyone even has a dozen mushrooms to throw my way. This year in particular, they're still waiting for spring and summer. Lots of people in the Midwest using the weirdly cool year as proof that global warming is a hoax, not comprehending that these wild deviations across the board are bad mojo. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5407431706601832542&ei=WLZzSt_WEaXqrALq8IS1BQ&q=esoteric+agenda&hl=en">Esoteric Agenda made a good case for global warming as hoax, but the fact remains that the weather just seems ominously "not right" these days, like we really have reached a tipping point.

Winter was one of the coldest on record. This summer has been beautiful, warm, and dry except for the past week or so, which has been more seasonal. We're used to rain this time of year. You know -- no rain, no rainbows. :evilgrin:

Anchorage's weather is never the same. It's been constantly changing since I first moved up here in '75. Some years wet, some dry, some warm, some cold, some years with lots of snow, some with hardly any.

in april the evenings were cool- say 50F of so and the days warm-- around 70F. but now just 3 months later its fukn 90+F in the shade. this keeps up it'l be, like 130F by december.

after some rather brutal summers couple years past this summer has barely hit 100F.

Two years ago in July we had nearly a week of +110F.

It should be foggy in the mornings sunny in the afternoon, typical SF bay area weather. In august not July like it has been.

I have lived in San Diego for 27 years, and the highest temperature I have seen at my house was 108, and the lowest temperature 25. Both of those have happened within the last 3 years. To me this means more extremes of weather. Also the trend her seems to be less rainfall with each passing year. This is just my informal observation.

Its been too dry the last few years in GA. Now its wet and humid with afternoon thunderstorms.

snow on the ground for a few months straight. and this summer has been refreshingly cool.

I live in Tacoma, Washington and the weather has been HOT!!! On Wednesday we set an ALL TIME record at 104 (average summer day is 72) we've had about a week at 90 and still more warm weather to come. We are not prepared for that here, most of our residences do not have a/c and our bodies are not adapted to that sort of heat. Also it is very humid to make things worse.

days. This is MUCH more than usual, and there is a serious problem with fungus in fields, where it affects some crops like tomatoes. Even several week ago the proportion of cloudy days was in the top two or so since record-keeping began, and it has continued to be cloudy and often rainy since then as well. Very weird.

But though I feel bad for what is happening on area farms (including the community farm where I participate), I have greatly enjoyed the refreshing cool, clean weather. Very few hot days this year, and air quality never gets a chance to get bad before it's all washed out again.

pleasant instead of the usual swelteringly humid and hot evenings we normally have.

FWIW.

Over the past few years there have been many more severe wind events--tornados, straight line winds, etc. than were previously.

Lots of rain. Second coolest July on record. 14 days that did not reach 80 this month.

I've noticed something strange. The flowers I have on the south end are not getting the same amount of sun as they have in years past. They are all slanting toward the southeast. We've been in this house 20+ years, and they have never done that before.

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/07/hightides/

From Maine to Florida, the Atlantic seaboard has experienced higher tides than expected this summer. At their peak in mid-June, the tides at some locations outstripped predictions by two feet. The change has come too fast to be attributed to melting ice sheets or anything quite that dramatic, and it’s a puzzle for scientists who’ve never seen anything quite like it.

“The ocean is dynamic. It’s not uncommon to have anomalies like this but the breadth and the intensity and duration were unique,” said Mike Szabados, director of the National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration’s tide and current program.

The unexpected tidal surge is subsiding, has reduced its reach from the entire coast, and is now concentrated just in the mid-Atlantic states. . . .

Szabados said that two main factors appear to have contributed to the extra high tides. First, there were steady winds out of the northeast throughout this anomaly. Second, the ocean current running from Florida up along the coast weakened. While the associations between these phenomena and the tides are provocactive, it’s too early to tell how fully they explain this unexpected tidal event.

It's been unusually cool and very rainy here this summer. Local farmers have lost a lot of their tomato and potato crops due to late blight from all the June rain. Flooding has been a serious problem in this area and a few locations suffered serious damage from tornadoes that touched down here on Wednesday.

this year? to die for (here).

mild winter, fantastic spring, and a summer of much rain and kindof hot days but always cool nights.

the tomatoes used to cook on the vine. now they are fat and happy.



but the bugs! flies galore. especially these little gnat creatures. they are everywhere. and the mouse population is up.

you trade one problem for another, but i do appreciate the relief from the heat...

It rained almost the entire month of June and July has been humid and thunderstorms all the time.

Worst. Summer. Ever. :mad:

as hot as it usually is for August. We has summers of long stretches of 90 degree+ weather, but heva not had a 90 degree day since April.

Our figs are not even ripe yet - usually we would have started picking them in July or earlier.
"Here" is SE PA, north west of Philly in Berks County.

mark

Lots of rain and most days the highs are in the 80s. We did have a few 90+ days in June, but it's been cool since then.
A couple of days ago the high temperature here was 83, and the Seattle, Washington area was 103. Strange!

more than extreme. It is exceptional. We've had 6 inches of rain for the entire year. We should have 250% more than this for an average "dry" year.

It is also hotter than usual. Really hot wind, too.

http://www.arborday.org/media/map_change.cfm

the growing zones have changed

shows the difference between 1990 and 2006

but a nice cool, overcast June which may be responsible for no huge fires. We had about 10 days of temps in high 90's which is miserable even without humidity. Now settled down into the 80's - overcast in mornings, then always sunny later in the day. Can't remember when we last had rain, so Northeast, you can have 15 of our warm, sunny days in August and we'll take 16 of your rainy ones.

That's odd, even for July :)