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One commenter yesterday said that global warming was turning this region of the Arctic (which has lots of multi-year ice and is covered with fresh snow) into a “slushie.”

arctic.io – Arctic Terra – (2013/177)

10 Oct 1896 – A Disastrous Tidal Wave.

http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/9379575?

18 Jul 1896 – Great Heat in Europe. NUMEROUS CASES OF SUNSTROK…

18 Feb 1896 – GREAT HEAT WAVE. SHADE HEAT HIGHEST ON RECORD. A…

07 Jul 1896 – A SEVERE WINTER. EXTREME COLD.

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Last year, the canary in the coal mine was located in Chicago and the corn belt, while much of the west had a cool summer. But this year climate change has forced the canary to migrate to the west.

10-Day Temperature Outlook for the Conterminous U.S.

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COI | Centre for Ocean and Ice | Danmarks Meteorologiske Institut

Our local court jester T.O.O., has made numerous very excited  comments over the last 24 hours boasting about a tiny opening in the ice just west of Point Barrow. You might be able to locate this inside the red circle below.

arctic.io – Arctic Terra – (2013/177)

T.O.O. believes that this opening is going to lead to a collapse of the Arctic

If record cold in the Arctic and a record slow fire season isn’t bad enough, now we have an early monsoon season firing up in the southwest.

Weather Street:Clouds and Precipitation Forecast

Any other president who started talking about preparing for the coming apocalyptic storm would probably be taken off for psychological examination.

Obama says it, and 47% of the population nod their head.

Professor Stephen Belcher, Head of the Met Office Hadley Centre and chair of the meeting, said: “Ultimately what we’ve seen in each of these seasons is shifts in the position of the jet stream which impact our weather in certain ways at different times of year.

“The key question is what is causing the jet stream to shift in this way? There is some research to say some parts of the natural system load the dice to influence certain states of the jet stream, but this loading may be further amplified by climate change.”

Meeting on UK’s run of unusual seasons

In other news, spending your paycheck has been shown to be due to spending your paycheck.

Accuweather is making hysterical claims record heat across the west, including Colorado. All the other forecasts I see show us cool and wet.

I was at Arizona State University during the peak of the global cooling scare in 1974. From June 12 to June 29 it was over 110 degrees every day.

A few weeks later Nixon resigned. Can we have a repeat performance?