Outlier events should never make the case for any hypothesis about general trends. Here in the U.S. we are experiencing a very strange summer. Dew points and relative humidity here in the Northeast have been like Florida’s and the Deep South’s for most of the summer. In fact, I saw a dew point and relative humidity weather map recently that had these high dew points all the way up into the northern parts of Western Canada. Our temperatures are not at all extreme, but it is the tropical feel to the air that is most unusual for many weeks on end. Also, the barometric pressure has tended to be under 30 – again, not typical for our corner of the country. And this has been going on for MONTHS, if not the entire year. We rarely get nice high pressure systems now.

I don’t chalk it up to Al Methane Bore’s hypothesis of man made global warming.