Something is definatly not right- my overnight lows are in the 40's, leaves are falling and the Sun doesnt look right.

My flowers made a brief appearance and died an untimely death.

Where is Al when you need him?!

Im in the south east and we have had an unusual amount of rain here. Some farmers could not even get there crops out because of the rain. In our garden we had a few things rot due to excesive rain. The tempeture has been mild thus far this year but it is early, it could still get very warm but so far a little cooler than normal.

Originally posted by cornblossom
We're definitely experiencing colder than normal temperatures. Maybe it's just a normal cyclical thing (or not), but regardless, it's quite worrisome anytime the weather has a negative impact on our crops.

Absolutely it's always worrisome when the crops are suffering. When crops fail the costs go up, the shelves are more bare, people don't eat as healthy as they should...

It's 9:30pm here now and the sun has just gone over the mountains, it's getting darker now.

I want to know if that's normal or if it's off by a hour or half, something.

I'll fish around for some weather sites and see if they have records in our area of sunup/sundown.


Maybe time is speeding up, and not slowing down? I've got to find some of these posts I was running on about.




[edit on 15-6-2009 by star in a jar]

OK folks, I have a theory.

We've had several hot summers over the past couple of years. This corresponds with a very deep solar minimum.

Now that the sun is starting to* wake up and becomes more active, we're experiencing increase solar wind with increased particle flux and densities.

This causes polar ionospheric convection in the Earth's atmosphere. The super cold polar air masses are pushed toward the equator and into the jetstream where they encounter all of the extra water that's been vaporized and voila! Storms and cold.

I fear we are to have a very cold winter ahead. Buy your winter gear in the summer when it's cheap, folks!

Only one of the many effects that our Sun has on our little planet!

Notice that on Sunday afternoon, it was beautiful and clear skied? (I will use Ontario Canada and KC, MO as my reference points here), and then all of a sudden, clouds and winds whipped up? That was due to a little burp of solar wind!

*- I put an asterisk next to "starting to" because it doesn't seem like the Sun has really decided if she's going to wake up, or stay quiet..

(S&F!)


[edit on 16-6-2009 by brokenheadphonez]

Originally posted by dgtempe

I'm 100% in agreement with you. I hate to see whats next.

Yep. The bastards are going to give us more taxes meanwhile laughing at us for believing them that "they can save the planet if we give them more money through taxes, and if they have more control over us"...

Originally posted by dgtempe
Theres an old saying " Salimos de Guatemala para meternos en Guatapeor"

As an American, i am very very upset. But now i'm derailing.

I haven't heard that saying in a long time. For the members who don't understand Spanish what the above means it goes like. "We got out of Guate"bad" to get into Guata"worse" "mala" means "bad", and peor means "worse".

But yeah, you are right. Soon enough if this continues, and it seems it is not stopping, we will be getting longer, and longer winters, and shorter, and shorter summers, until eventually in the northen, and southernmost regions there won't be much of a summer.

There will be exceptions, countries, and cities closer to big oceans will take longer to get colder because the oceans still have a lot of extra heat stored, which they are releasing slowly. But once that heat is gone, and if the Sun's activity doesn't pick up, we will find ourselves in another LIA (Little Ice Age)

[edit on 16-6-2009 by ElectricUniverse]