July 2009 was the 2nd warmest July ever recorded in the planet

[Becky72]

"NASA's Goddard Institute of Space Studies (GISS) has determined that July of 2009 was the second warmest July globally, since records were kept going back well over a hundred years.

The global land-ocean temperature anomaly for July 2009 was +.60 Celsius or +1.08 F. Only July of 1998 (a strong el nino year) was warmer"

Whole story: http://global-warming.accuweather.com/2009/08/second_warmest_july_on_record.html

[Canuckistanian]

1. But, but it SNOWED during a global warming conference!

In March!

Your post makes no sense.

[Old Codger]

2. 2009

Is also an El Nino year.

[scarletwoman]

3. Oddly enough, here in Minnesota it was the COLDEST July on record. Due to the position

of the jet stream. I don't have a link handy, but I'm fairly sure I heard that it was the coldest Minnesota July since records were being kept. Or at least the coldest since the late 1800s.

Climate change has many parts -- one of the parts is the shape and position of the jet stream. This year, it arced way up out west, and dipped way down over the midwest, bringing a constant stream of chilled arctic air much further south than usual.

Personally, I loved having a cold July.

sw

Edited to change "1900s" to "1800s" -- which is what I actually meant.

[BlooInBloo]

4. We made up for it in Seattle.

[scarletwoman]

6. I know. Believe me, I felt really sorry for you guys. I lived out that way for a time, in the

San Juan Islands. I can somewhat relate to how awful it must have been to go through that kind of unexpected and unrelenting heat.

sw

[madrchsod]

8. second coldest here in northern il since the late 1800s

now it`s back to normal....

[The Straight Story]

5. A hundred years out of millions?

I dunno, just don't not seem to be that good of a marker.

[BlooInBloo]

7. (shrug) Sampling has to start somewhere. As more time passes...

the sampled average converges in several mathematical senses to the true average.

[Becky72]

9. Well, we are in the hottest decade of the last millenium or so

And if this is the hottest July this dedace, It wouldn't be far-fetched to believe that this month was the warmest in at least 1000 years.

[pipi_k]

10. Not in Mass...

I can't even count how many times the heat came on in the house in the mornings during July.

Some days in August, as well.

This is the second summer in a row we have not had to use the AC.

Granted, where I live it's often 5 to 9 degrees cooler than in the city, but still...every August since 1996 we've had to turn on the AC for two weeks. Except, like I said, for last year and this year.

It's also been the rainiest summer in way longer than I can remember.

All this cool wet weather has done little to convince certain people that Global Warming is a reality. Oh, look how COLD it's been, they say... Well, yeah...Global Warming does seem rather silly if one is only focused on one's own tiny little area...

:eyes:

[femmocrat]

11. We had a cool, wet July in PA, too.

Fifth coldest on record. We finally had a 90 degree day last weekend--- the first one since June 2008.

I know, that doesn't have anything to do with global warming. It's been nice to turn off the AC and save money this summer. It would be terrific if we have a warm winter and save on heating oil!

[LWolf]

12. It was hotter, for longer than usual, here.

While we can have frost on any day of the year, we get HOT, too. It doesn't usually last more than a few days, or a week at most, before cooling down, then warming back up. That cycle was absent in July. It got HOT; not hotter than normal, but at the extreme edge of "normal" for summer, and just stayed like that. All month.

After a winter that pushed the envelope of COLD for longer periods of time.