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2009 - The Year Without a Summer in the Midwest?

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I feel bad for those in Texas who have had to sell their calves early due to the heat. But up North, alot of us is wondering were is Summer?

Normals for the Des Moines area is 86/66. Most of last month was colder than normal (only the late June heat wave put Des Moines above average for the month).

So far for July, the average temp has been 2.4 below normal, Northern Iowa has been even colder and I present to you my local forecast:

Wednesday: Partly cloudy, with a high near 81. Breezy, with a west northwest wind between 6 and 16 mph, with gusts as high as 23 mph.

Wednesday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 62. West northwest wind between 5 and 9 mph.

Thursday: A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 78. West northwest wind between 5 and 9 mph.

Thursday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 56. North northwest wind between 6 and 10 mph.

Friday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 74.

Friday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 58.

Saturday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 76.

Saturday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 57.

Sunday: Sunny, with a high near 81.

Sunday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 61.

Monday: Sunny, with a high near 83.

Monday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 62.

Tuesday: A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 82.
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I know, I know, don't complain but it seems like the older I get (I'm 36) it seems like winter drags on forever and we only get 3 months or so of "true summer weather".
 
that forecast seems just perfect weather to me, but then again I am Canadian!! :wink: I've showed cattle at the Iowa State fair and the humidity was gross, are you having it as much with the "cooler" weather?
 
Yanuck said:
that forecast seems just perfect weather to me, but then again I am Canadian!! :wink: I've showed cattle at the Iowa State fair and the humidity was gross, are you having it as much with the "cooler" weather?
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I'm guessing the humidity will be next to nothing over the coming days. The last 2 winters have been colder and snowier than normal, the summer of 2008 was colder and wetter than normal and 2009 is shaping up to be the same way.
 
garn said:
Yanuck said:
that forecast seems just perfect weather to me, but then again I am Canadian!! :wink: I've showed cattle at the Iowa State fair and the humidity was gross, are you having it as much with the "cooler" weather?
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I'm guessing the humidity will be next to nothing over the coming days. The last 2 winters have been colder and snowier than normal, the summer of 2008 was colder and wetter than normal and 2009 is shaping up to be the same way.
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now if you could just do something about all that corn!! :lol: :lol:
 
Well it's been really cool here in Southern Ontario as well. Highs of 20 -24 C and lows of 7C at night. Almost no days of high humidity at all. Beautiful, really.

Somehow the corn looks remarkably good but the soys are REALLY short and slow.

It has been good grass growing weather although we could use a good soaking rain now. For as hard as it has been to make hay, we haven't gotten all that much rain in our area, just spotty showers with amounts up to .5".

Hey did you guys in Northern Iowa know that here in Southern Ontario we live further south than some of you??
 
garn said:
I feel bad for those in Texas who have had to sell their calves early due to the heat. But up North, alot of us is wondering were is Summer?

Normals for the Des Moines area is 86/66. Most of last month was colder than normal (only the late June heat wave put Des Moines above average for the month).

So far for July, the average temp has been 2.4 below normal, Northern Iowa has been even colder and I present to you my local forecast:

Wednesday: Partly cloudy, with a high near 81. Breezy, with a west northwest wind between 6 and 16 mph, with gusts as high as 23 mph.

Wednesday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 62. West northwest wind between 5 and 9 mph.

Thursday: A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 78. West northwest wind between 5 and 9 mph.

Thursday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 56. North northwest wind between 6 and 10 mph.

Friday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 74.

Friday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 58.

Saturday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 76.

Saturday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 57.

Sunday: Sunny, with a high near 81.

Sunday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 61.

Monday: Sunny, with a high near 83.

Monday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 62.

Tuesday: A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 82.
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I know, I know, don't complain but it seems like the older I get (I'm 36) it seems like winter drags on forever and we only get 3 months or so of "true summer weather".
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Well damn I would love to have weather in the high 70's to low 80's right now. Yesterday here in kansas it was 100 degree but the heat index was 111. I'm already tired of this weather. Too dry and too hot.
 
You silly people :roll: Don't you know all this cool weather is the result of global warming. :D

Ya your warm weather is warming someone else up in parts unknown. :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
 
I spent half of yesterday wearing a sweatshirt haying since it was so cool. We have not broke 80's since may. It feels like fall and I am woundering where my summer went. The local dairy farmers corn looks bad. The weather may force some of the local dairy/beef farmers out if the crops do not start growing or able to harvest their feed.
 
If you didn't wear a jacket today, you may have chilled. It was in the low 70's with a brisk north wind. Tonight they forcast record low temps. With all this wet and cool, I'm packing up and heading to Arizona on the 27th. Need some sushine and a general thawing out. Will see if some other parts of the country are a little more enjoyable. There was an article in the paper stating that these cool, wet springs look to be the coming thing of the future :( Quite something when one has to sleep under a sheet and a heavy comforter in the middle of July in Iowa :???:
 

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