Thursday, March 21, 2013Good morning crew,
Welcome to spring! In case you didn't notice it, yesterday was the vernal equinox and it was a balmy 18 degrees Fahrenheit when I got in my truck at 6 a.m.
This morning it was 17. So apparently it's getting worse. That is only about 23 degrees below the average for this time of year.
But before you go out and find a climate change theory believer to ridicule, you should know that the overall temperature for the winter 2012 was 3.2 degrees above the historic average.
In fact, it didn't get below zero once the entire winter, and that is very unusual in Chicago.
Now what that means in the overall, meteorological, global climate sense of things, I don't know. What I do know is that I'm still blasting my furnace into the first week of spring and the price of natural gas is going up!
Laugh it up,
Joe
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