[michsnowlvr]

Originally Posted by Monelli

Possibly something wrong with my house that i was freezing this morning?

If you are in Troy near Detroit, it did bottom out in the upper 40s to low 50s this morning with a light breeze, so with windows open it could be chilly. Every day in June so far has been colder than normal in southeast MI, and we have yet to hit 80 this month, and its already half over, certainly abnormal. The year of 2009 is definitely colder than average, but it doesnt necessarily mean Michigan is getting colder.

This is the way I look at it....MI will always have 4 distinct seasons....our warmest winters still have snowstorms, our coldest summers will still have some uncomfortable humid days. Its just what will be dominating, and lately it has been the cool side.

[unclejake21]

yes it definitely is cooler than the past decade or so... but I honestly don't mind it cool at all. Although it is taking forever for my strawberries to ripen because of a lot of days with rain and not enough warm days with sunshine.

[BayAreaHillbilly]

Same thing is happening in much of the Western US. Draw a line at about the 41st parallel from the Atlantic to the Rockies, then down along the Continental Divide. Everything north and west of that line has been cooler than normal. Even south and east of it, things have been normal at best. This is going to be a rough year for crop yields in many places.

[daddythreepointoh]

Originally Posted by michsnowlvr

If you are in Troy near Detroit, it did bottom out in the upper 40s to low 50s this morning with a light breeze, so with windows open it could be chilly. Every day in June so far has been colder than normal in southeast MI, and we have yet to hit 80 this month, and its already half over, certainly abnormal. The year of 2009 is definitely colder than average, but it doesnt necessarily mean Michigan is getting colder.

This is the way I look at it....MI will always have 4 distinct seasons....our warmest winters still have snowstorms, our coldest summers will still have some uncomfortable humid days. Its just what will be dominating, and lately it has been the cool side.

We've hit the 80's a few times already here in Ortonville...

[Orwelleaut]

Originally Posted by Coldjensens

I lived in MIchigan from 1963 through 1988. I lived in Califronia until 2005 and then returned to Michigan. It is defintely a lot warmer now than it was when I was a kid. The snow used to stay ont eh ground and accumulate pretty much all winter. We always had lots of days below zero and the cold started in November. Now we have warm days on and off all winter. The swno does nto stick around much more than a week or two at a time. And we were still swimming on Thanksgiving.

Compared to the previous three winters this winter was colder, but compared to twenty years ago - much warmer.

Swimming at Thanksgiving?? In MI??? Maybe if you are a polar bear. I went swimming in Lake Erie in early October in 2005, the summer that we thought would never end, and also in early October of 2007, when we had the October heatwave. I think I went in the water on October 15, maybe, in 2007, but that was unique. By the end of October, it has always been too cold to go swimming, and I'm referring to Lake Erie NOrth of Toledo. This past fall, we had a rather cool September where the swimming season was over after something like September 3'rd. This is about the earliest I remember the swimming season ending this early in my over 30 years of going swimming in the summers

As far as this spring/summer, things are also cooler than usual. Haven't been swimming yet. Recent summers, such as '07, I started swimming in the smaller inland lakes in May, with the 80+ degree temps. Last summer, early June.

[Orwelleaut]

Speaking of October.....remember October of 2006??? Instead of swimming to cool off and refresh, like in both 2005 and 2007, wondering when fall would start, we had snow. 30 degrees at night, flurries in the air, and the blizzard in Buffalo, NY, in early October. This was freak stuff, and broke records. The earliest snow had been seen in Buffalo, NY, since records have been kept, prior to this, was a flurry some time around Halloween. Bearing in mind the record breaking heat in the "bookend" Octobers surrounding this just shows, I'm guessing, that weather is, to quote Forrest Gump, "Lahk a bawx of chawklits...ya niver nao whacher gunna git!!!"

[allbusiness]

95 degrees today....I think not...