People at a marathon in Chicago drop, or die, from

heat exhaustion and the weather hacks on teevee tell us with a big smile that it's just a high pressure bubble that will move along eventually and all will be well.

The temp allegedly was 88°, an all-time record. 88° in Chicago a week into October.

And the weather hacks smile while they avoid telling us the real reason it's 88° in Chicago in October.

Meanwhile, the Arctic Ocean is NOT freezing as it normally would...in October.

in Connecticut on Saturday.

A week into october.

No rain for a month, leaves turning colors and 94 degrees!

raining today however

My fear is that we are the brink of global catastrophe and it's too late to do anything about it now.
But that doesn't mean we shouldn't try to reverse it.

We were frying at a 5th grade football game here in Dayton!

IN OCTOBER!!

.... according to the Chicago Tribune, "Sunday's high temperature could reach into the upper 80s, exceeding the existing record 86(degrees) high set on this date back in 1947."

OK, so we're complaining about the heat, but today didn't even match the record high from 1997, and tomorrow's high MIGHT match the high from 60 years ago.

Sorry, that doesn't sound like cause for alarm to me.

In fact, if you look at a table of Chicago's record temps, (like this one: http://weather.msn.com/daily_averages.aspx?wealocations=wc:USIL0225&weai=10 ), you'll see that they were set in the following years:

Month Record Low Record High
1-Oct 38° (1958) 92° (1971)
2-Oct 35° (1974) 89° (1971)
3-Oct 36° (1987) 88° (1954)
4-Oct 37° (1989) 87° (1951)
5-Oct 36° (1980) 84° (1963)
6-Oct 33° (1952) 92° (1963)
7-Oct 36° (1964) 86° (1990)
8-Oct 34° (1987) 85° (1949)
9-Oct 34° (1964) 85° (1949)
10-Oct 32° (1964) 86° (1962)
11-Oct 35° (1964) 87° (1962)
12-Oct 34° (1987) 83° (1973)
13-Oct 33° (1979) 86° (1975)
14-Oct 33° (1979) 86° (1975)
15-Oct 36° (1969) 86° (1962)
16-Oct 35° (1991) 85° (1963)
17-Oct 32° (1948) 85° (1950)
18-Oct 26° (1948) 84° (1950)
19-Oct 30° (1972) 83° (1953)
20-Oct 31° (1972) 84° (1953)
21-Oct 31° (1952) 80° (1953)
22-Oct 28° (1976) 84° (1953)
23-Oct 30° (1981) 86° (1963)
24-Oct 24° (1981) 82° (1963)
25-Oct 26° (1962) 79° (1973)
26-Oct 25° (1962) 83° (1963)
27-Oct 32° (1976) 75° (1950)
28-Oct 30° (1976) 76° (1984)
29-Oct 29° (1980) 75° (1950)
30-Oct 27° (1988) 83° (1950)
31-Oct 30° (1993) 84° (1950)



Funny, isn't it? Most of the record LOWS were set in the 70s, 80s, or 90's, but most of the record highs were set in the 40s, 50s, or 60s. According to that, it looks like Chicago is getting COOLER.