2012: Hottest Year On Record

no cold air trapped up in Canada... it's hot as fuck right now and we had the same lack of winter as you guys did.

 

If there isn't anything abnormal about it why are we setting records all over the map?

 

We just got over a heat wave here in Philly. It's getting worse!

I don't know about you guys, but I'm scared. What's going to happen to us 20 years from now?

 

Think Thanksgiving turkey...

 

shhh it's easier to ignore if you pesky Canadians would just shut up!

 

Its been crazy hot and didnt even have a real so called winter. I love the seasons but didnt get a spring this year jumped right into summer, we hit 112 , never had that temp in recorded history. Scary to say the least.

 

112 huh, welcome to the real world!

 

Not very good odds...


http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2012/07/your-climate-steriods

 

Yep, we had two weeks over 100 degrees F, and now are having 80 degree days with loads of rain. I think we had at least 5 inches in one afternoon. I feel sure next week we will have more hot dry weather just to keep us from adjusting to it.

 

Only good thing about the temps this year is that my heating bill (natural gas) went down. WAAAY down. It usually starts snowing in September and doesn't stop until the beginning/mid May. (Yep, 9 months of winter and 3 months of summer. GAH) But now we're using more electricity than in past years by needing to run the A/C so much.

And YES, I'm talking about living in Pennsylvania - a climatically-challenged area of PA!

 

I'd agree with that.

 

We had no snow at all this past winter, kinda weird for the mountains of WV. I wasnt complaining because icy roads conditions make me a nervous wreck when my husband drives all day for his job.

 

I can't wait for it to get cold!

 

well, choosing to run the A/C so much anyway.

 

Summer in my neck of the woods has been so hot and humid to the point it is almost unbearable..uughh...

 

it's not choosing when it's 90F and extremely humid in your home and you're ill!

otherwise, yes, A/C is more often than not a choice. honestly, i hate it. didn't think we'd need it when we moved here. everyone said there were never more than 2 weeks out of the summer TOTAL that they wished they had A/C. that was 8 years ago we were told that. now more and more people are installing A/C here who never had a need for it before. it's gotten so hot here that we had an elderly neighbor here for the day because they didn't have A/C in his home.

 

I'm seriously thinking about moving back to San Francisco. It is almost never over 80 degrees and the winters aren't very cold at all.

I'm currently living in Philly and it's been really hot here the last couple of weeks.

 

Yeah an iceberg 3 times the size of Manhattan broke off from Greenland last week

 

So Greenland could actually become... Green... Like it was roughly 3mya?