New York with Coolest Summer in Over 100 Years

Its warm today, when the clouds aren't out. Outside of that it has been a cool rainy summer so this story is no surprise:

Usually resilient New Yorkers are left sleep deprived, electrically overloaded, sweat soaked and short-tempered. The high temperatures and even higher humidity typically contribute to blackouts, deaths from heat exhaustion, and dangerously low water pressure from open fire hydrants.

But this summer has been conspicuously different. Not one 99-degree day in Central Park. Not a single day that the temperature even approached 90. For just the second time in 140 years of record keeping, the temperature will have failed to reach 90 in either June or July.

The daily average this month has been at or below normal every day but two. The temperature broke 80 on 16 days in New York — one more day than in Fairbanks, Alaska. Depending on Friday’s high, this will be the second or third coolest June and July recorded in New York. If August follows the same pattern — and the latest forecast through midmonth predicts that it will — this could be the coolest summer on record.The result: relief, lower electric bills, spared lives and undisturbed slumber.

But this being New York, New Yorkers have also recalibrated their threshold for heat complaints. This summer, 85 is the new 95.“There’s no doubt there’s a tendency to acclimatize to a weather pattern,” said Fred Gadomski, a Pennsylvania State University meteorologist. “This summer, we’ve had so many relatively cool days that even if it gets a little warm people are reacting to it as if it’s a very hot day.”

Better get that cap and tax passed before people realize the warming jig is up. By the way I have heard stories that places like Michigan went from Spring to Fall and bypassed Summer altogether.