Yeah, no need to worry really. The earth is remarkably resilient and will probably fix itself within a few thousand years once humans break things badly enough that the planet can't support us.

That's nature's way of saying "Get off my lawn!".

Oh that sucks. That storm was violent, but short.

New record low max temp of 64 degrees set in Denver today. Previous record was 66 set in *1925* and previous years. The sun was out during my commute between 4 and 5pm today and I still had sweat dripping off of me and all was well.

It is the ocean temperature that controls the weather. The temperature rises 2 degrees, the polar caps melt and disrupts the jet-stream. = Global unbalance. It is everyone's responsability to fix it

We're the lucky ones here in the great plains/midwest. June was a bit wetter than usual, but not terrible. We've only had a few above 90 days. Most have been highs from 75-85 and lows from upper 50s to mid 60s. It's been a beautiful summer. A bicyclists dream.

Maybe it's man-made climate change. Maybe it's natural fluctuation.

But we'd probably be wise to view it as "nature's way of telling you something's wrong"
(to quote Randy California)

The eco movement ought to resurrect that song.

Seattle stole NYC's summer... Until now. We've got 85+ weather with nasty near 90% humidity now. But it's still raining nearly every day! Will NYC/North East every be rid of this infernal, constant rain?!?

The weather here has been unusual but not awful. Cooler and dryer than normal. 70's and low 80's rather than 80's and 90's.

Bigger problem is drought. Lake levels are way down. Both Minnetonka and White Bear levels are something like 2 feet below last year. Minnehaha creek/falls has very little water.

Heck, I had to pull out my winter lights yesterday with all the darkness from the afternoon showers. Next week looks good, otherwise it's September.

Constant rain? You don't know constant rain. I just checked the Weather Channel, and it says you've only had rain 8 out of the last 14 days. In November 1998 it rained 27 out of 30 days here. Of course, that's not typical. On average, we only get 18.5 days of rain in November, then 18.7 in December, 17.5 in January, 15.5 in February, 17.1 in March and 14.3 in April. Let me do the math for you, between November and April, here in northwestern Oregon, it rains on average once every two days. The other day out of those two it's cloudy with a chance of rain. In October and May it only rains one out of every three days.

I just thought that might make you feel better about the "constant" rain there.

we've had incredible cycling weather this summer- very little rain, morning temps in the low 60's which makes for great commuting and temps in the high 70's/low eighties for the ride home.
I guess your loss is our gain-

On the flip side, it's only rained one day here since June 20.

you wear tights at 52 in Colorado? Damn, we Canucks are tough. I ride with a regular jersey and shorts in that weather. What do you do in the fall/winter, stay home?

You canucks are tough?

yeah, we even leave the body armor at home when we commute!

Ha! Clearly you don't live here. Ask anyone that lives here (and I live here!!) how the weather has been ALL SUMMER SO FAR. Did you miss the 2nd wettest June in all of recorded history in NYC or were you sleeping?

BTW, we missed the June record for rainfall by something like .021". Had June held out for a couple more hours we would have broken the record since July 1st it rained.

It rained AGAIN today here in NYC and there's a severe weather alert for more thunderstorms and flash flooding.

Like I said, Seattle mugged NY and took our summer. Damn you, Seattle. LOL!

Alright, 21 days of rain in June, I'll give you that. It's a few days more than our average November, but being summer I can see how it would suck. Even so, let me know when you've done that for six months straight.

I've already started building an Arc.

Don't forget Spring 2003! In Portland, it rained 28 days in a row (Feb 28th - March 27th), was cloudy (but dry) for 3 days (March 28th-30th), then rained another 18 days in a row (March 31st - April 17th). Was dry one day, then rained another 20 days in a row (April 19th - May 8th). That's 66 of 70 days with measurable rain. During that time, there was not a single clear day in over 2 months. I was living in Portland at the time. I remember it well. Sadly, even that spell didn't break any records.

lol

I spend all day climbing up in the rockies mixing it up in traffic for the 50mph descents. The idea of body armor is befuddling.

I'd be a serial killer with all that rain. Ugh.

I'm loving it.

The upside to the cold is that my cat has been extra affectionate.

I have old knees that still work because I wear tights below 60 F...despite my best effort to have one of them removed by pavement via a car

We now have torrential rain flooding some areas and a tornado warning. A tornado was actually confirmed to have touched down two days ago. Sheered some roofs off some house and barns (in the country) downed trees, cut off utilities but luckily no one was killed.