July in Oklahoma was the hottest of any state on Record.

[HewenttoJared]

http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2011/0...d/#more-293382

Oklahoma broke a lot of records last month. So did the rest of the US.

[Bunty]

Meanwhile, some forecaster is calling for well below average temperatures this winter for most of the country, including Oklahoma: http://http://oklahomachaser18.blogspot.com/2011/08/thoughts-on-winter-2011-2012.html

[HewenttoJared]

Fairly likely.

[bandnerd]

I think back on driving in our neighborhood, cutting right and left through the ruts, fishtailing to break up the cold ice and snow, and remember how much fun it was to attempt that in my tiny car; and then I think about driving around in the heat, waistband of my pants soaked through from sweat despite my a/c running full-blast. It has been a year of shock and awe, that's for sure. Bring on a new season. I adored today. I yearn for days like today to last. I know they won't, even if it was October they wouldn't last, but this summer has got to end.

I can easily protect pipes and faucets from freezing. It's harder to keep the a/c in shape and the foundation from cracking...not to mention my sanity lol.

[urbanity]

Commentary: Feeling the heat

http://www.okgazette.com/oklahoma/ar...-the-heat.html

[HewenttoJared]

On a related note, I think Texas broke the record for highest recorded summer temps of any state since we started measuring temps.

[Achilleslastand]

This oughta make Al Gore happy.
Next thing you know his wife will form a commitee on banning heavy metal music and call it the PMRC...........Opps wait.

[HewenttoJared]

Gore has a project starting at 7 tonight. IMO it is worth watching. Wild swings like these are a prediction of global warming, but any of them alone is more of a taste of what's coming than direct evidence of the warming.

[Thunder]

In order to reach an Ice Age, the planet must first go through the Global Warming period.

And we sure damn are getting extremely close to the next Ice Age! Just you all wait. Venture?

[HewenttoJared]

Not likely Thunda. Hit the play button on this.
http://climatecommunication.org/
Even if cut emissions now the temperature is going to rise for some time.

[venture]

Nature is ruled by a law of averages...we see extremes get balanced out - eventually. So regardless of where people stand on global climate change, at some point Ma Nature will have enough and do a severe correction. I won't be shocked, on a smaller scale, to see Oklahoma go into a period of flooding on the flip side of this drought period. This is all just personal opinion, nothing with much (if any) scientific basis...just an opinion.

[Thunder]

And there you have it folks, Chief Meteorologist Venture at OKCTalk.com.

[Bunty]

Nature is ruled by a law of averages...we see extremes get balanced out - eventually. So regardless of where people stand on global climate change, at some point Ma Nature will have enough and do a severe correction. I won't be shocked, on a smaller scale, to see Oklahoma go into a period of flooding on the flip side of this drought period. This is all just personal opinion, nothing with much (if any) scientific basis...just an opinion.

So maybe we're due for over 60 in. of rain in 2012 after the same that happened in 2007 after drought conditions.

[HewenttoJared]

But nature doesn't always just balance out to the same state it had before. It finds new balance points. Those events are called mass extinctions.

[venture]

So maybe we're due for over 60 in. of rain in 2012 after the same that happened in 2007 after drought conditions.

Possibly...who knows. We'll see what happens.

But nature doesn't always just balance out to the same state it had before. It finds new balance points. Those events are called mass extinctions.

Well if/when that happens I guess all the whining about climate change will be pointless then. :-P