The return of cool

After a week or seasonal or above-average temperatures, cool returns to the area this week.

A cold front swinging through Western New York today promises to bring temperatures some 10 to 15 degrees cooler than normal for this time of the year Tuesday and Wednesday. Highs aren't forecast to climb much above 60 degrees either day.

Chilly is the word for Wednesday night. Lows are forecast to drop into the mid-40s to 50. A gradual warmup into the high 60s and low 70s is exected by the end of the week.

--- John F. Bonfatti

Comments

[Art Klein]

I worked and recreated out of doors for over fifty years and still am. So I know that the weather was rarely consistent. It never did get gradually warmer during the spring, stay hot in summer and gradually cool in the autumn. There were many variables in the general trend.

But over the past twenty years and certainly more so in the past en years I notice a consistent pattern of twenty and thirty degree changes overnight and during the day.

This spring we had one day that was 9 degrees at 6 AM and 39 degrees at 3 PM.

I point this out as further verification of the gigantic impacts climate change is silently wreaking. I say silently since Washington and certainly our reps in Albany encourage coal burning and co2 emissions to grow unabated just as though Nasa's James Hansen, the President's Committee on Environmental Quality (COQ) and many others have been describing these changes for nearly thirty years.

Ignoring these changes just means we are like those unfortunate folk in Iowa who were encouraged to build in flood plains. When the drastic affects begin to appear we will be surprised and try to reach higher ground - if it is not already filled up.