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>(On the down side our summer usually comes on a Thursday and lasts until Friday at noon)
Your summer's that long now? Global warming really must be kicking in.
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> Global warming really must be kicking in.
Not kidding. The last of my daffodils are only just finishing this week, and they have been continuously (sequentially) blooming since January 15th! We have already had to cut our grass over a dozen times.
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When I was at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff I had a professor from Minnesota. One of his favorite observations was that in Minnesota there were two seasons: winter and July. In Flagstaff there were also two seasons: winter and Tuesday.
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summer usually comes on a Thursday and lasts until Friday at noon)
We had summer in the Pacific Northwest a couple of years ago. I think it was on a Tuesday.
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that's not the question to hand. winter solstice is the shortest day -- at first blush you'd think it would be the coldest, having gotten gradually colder as the days shorten, and that the weather would be on the upswing from there; but that point comes one month later. that's the lag.The friction that the surface of the planet has to give to the atmosphere takes awhile to... ahem... *take* - (I suppose, in this case... *give). 
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summer in the Pacific Northwest a couple of years ago
It doesn't count whinging about not having a summer if you don't have a winter to contrast it with.
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In the four years I've lived here in upstate New York, I've learned we have two seasons: winter and road repair.
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Some years ago CBC produced a show called "The Canadian Conspiracy" about how Canadians were taking over the States (mainly by infiltrating the entertainment industry). Every time they showed a shot of Ottawa it was snowing. Ottawa, January 1972, snowing; March 1973, snowing; July 1973, snowing. The only shot in which they didn't show snow was one done in August.
And then there's the seasons in Northern Ontario - frostbite and flybite.
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if you don't have a winter to contrast it with.
We sorta had winter this year. It snowed one evening and snowed a bit more during the night, but it warmed up by eleven o'clock the next morning and all melted away. It was fun while it lasted.
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