2008 to Be Warmest Year in Century!

Okay, triple digit heat waves here in the West are common summer temperatures. I have noticed in the recent years, that each summer it has been getting hotter and hotter. The heat waves come on earlier and earlier. Few years back, August was the hot month. Then July , then June...this year it was all three and on into September! Global warming is a big part of it.

All the construction and buildings and roads and concrete all retain the heat they collect during the day. Cars and traffic generate heat. So during the day, not only do you have heat from the sun but you also have te heat being generated from these places. And once the sun goes down, that just means the heat from the sun is gone, but you still have the heat that all these places have soaked up all day and now, they are generating the heat. That is why it is still so hot at 9pm!

" But the booming interest in climate change has transformed the study of ancient weather records from what was once a "wallflower science," says Christian Pfister, a climate historian at the University of Bern." Apparently it used to be very, very cold in past centuries and climate control is quite the place of research these days. "Diaries of day-to-day weather details from the age before 19th-century standardized thermometers are proving of great value to scientists who study today's climate."

But for now, the heat is on!

"The Old Farmer's Almanac 2007 says "it used time-honored, complex calculations to predict that 2008 will be the warmest year in a century! Along with a bit of folklore that years that end in "8" have weird weather, The Old Farmer's Almanac claiming a secret formula based on sunspots as well as meteorology, forecasts a hot summer in most areas, but cool and dry in the upper Midwest. It says there will be more rain than normal except in Florida and the already dry West."

Some interesting facts about The Old Farmer's Almanac you might not know are: