am I the only one who thinks it's weird that Green Bay is 87 degrees now?

[w8liftinglady]

OK...I expect it to be hot here in Texas (it's 107)...
But Green Bay?!(My dad is from Waupaca)

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. It gets hot there sometimes.

I spent summers in the area when I was a kid (north of there, in Door County), and sometimes it got damned hot. My mother grew up there, and she told about summers in the '30s where it was very hot for weeks on end, and all the kids could do to cool off in those days was is swim or go to the movies. I am in Minneapolis, and it gets damned hot here, too; always has. The number and frequency of hot days does seem to be increasing, which I will not hesitate to attribute to global climate change, but an 87-degree-day in Green Bay or Minneapolis is not at all unusual.

[Siwsan]

2. Flint MI is 87, too

To be 87 in July isn't so odd, but I find myself thinking, "At least it's ONLY 87, today. What a RELIEF!" is very, very weird. We may be back to the 100 mark on Monday. Blaaaaaaaaa.

[Archae]

3. I live 60 miles south in Sheboygan.

It's not weird.

It's miserable.

[RebelOne]

4. According to my outside thermometer, the temp in the Atlanta area is 82.

I am just northwest of Atlanta and we have had temps in the 90s and 100s for the past few weeks. This won't last long though. It is supposed to climb back into the 90s next week.

[truedelphi]

5. Wisconsin gets hot in the summer.

Eighty seven in July is probably rather normal.

And keep in mind, that many of the weather stations have been moved over the lat thirty years.

So where the Chicago reports always came from a place close to the Lake, now they come from close to O'Hare Airport. Big difference in temperature achieved by doing that.

Same thing might be true of Green Bay weather stations.

This is one of the arguments made by Climate Change Deniers, and it is one that makes sense. (I don't subscribe to much of their nonsense, but when Climate Change Supporters are going, "Oh my God! 110 in AZ on a summer day! That is proof of the climate change" I want to barf.)

It gets hot in the summer. Your local weather men and women on TV are never going to mention that, because people tune in to watch the news when it is made more exciting.

[Nikia]

6. It was a bit weirder that it was over 100 back in June

And over 90 for the high for about two weeks straight. It is less unusual for it to be 87 on a given July day.

[muriel_volestrangler]

7. Yesterday's Green Bay max was 81; the average for July 20th is 80

http://www.nws.noaa.gov/climate/index.php?wfo=grb

87 isn't that far out. The record for that day is 99.

[madinmaryland]

8. It's 67 just outside of Baltimore this afternoon. It has rained all day!

[Worried senior]

9. I live 60 miles

north of Green Bay, we are 88 with a 70 dew pt, that is high, humidity is terrible and when we go outside we start sweating immediately.

We've had way too many of these days this year altho we've been lucky and have had rain, crops look good but then it's himid.