A tad chilly

  From Yahoo.

https://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/29211781/record-low-run-off-as-rain-skips-perth-again/

  How big can gov't get?  I suppose they could even charge you for the sunshine and the air you breathe if they wanted to.

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Do you live in Colorado? Does it rain on your house? Do the drops patter off the roof, compose romantic puddles on your porch?

Guess what: That water isn’t yours. You can’t have it. And you most certainly cannot set out a tank to catch what falls from the sky, you thief.

Water laws are so strict in Colorado that rainwater collection is virtually prohibited. The doctrine is written into the state’s Constitution. All the rain is already spoken for. It belongs to someone, and that someone probably isn’t you. So don’t you touch it.

“The rain barrel is the bong of the Colorado garden,” local columnist Dave Philipps wrote in 2007. “It’s legal to sell one. It’s legal to own one. It’s just not legal to use it for its intended purpose.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2015/03/24/it-is-actually-illegal-in-colorado-to-collect-the-rain-that-falls-on-your-home/

Well, at least Colorado hasn't yet gotten around to taxing for the amount of rain that falls on your lawn and garden.

Gasoline prices at some stations in the Soo are 60 cents per gallon higher than 24 hours ago ($3.299 vs. $2.699). Some BP refinery in Indiana has "experienced a technical issue" and will be at either 0% or 50% production (depending on the media source) for anywhere from 5 days to a month (depending on the media source). The price spike may top $1 per gallon by tomorrow. All of Michigan and elsewhere in the GL area is affected, though by varying amounts of gouging.

Still, even with today's spike the price is more than a dollar lower than three years ago.

EDIT: maybe my phrasing wasn't clear-- ALL brands and stations have shot up in price today, not just BP. 60 cents was just the maximum I observed.

Duluth hit 90F yesterday for the first time since 2013.  It's too hot.

Hey!  It might be warm enough to swim in Lake Superior this year. 

Hop in! The reported water temperature in the St. Mary's today was 59 F .

http://www.weatherzone.com.au/news/unseasonal-warmth-for-wa/347742

note: August long term max. avg. 19C

Looks like you're all finished with winter!

The forecast is for 87 F (31 C ) here later today. That makes 4 straight days above 85 F , which is nice and cool for a lot of places, but I'm not enjoying it very much.

EDIT: this is the warm air sleepingCat sent over from the other end of the lake.

It made it to 88 F here today. A cold front due through shortly before sunrise should keep tomorrow's high in the low 70s, which will be welcome after the past few days.

NOAA reports that, wordwide, July was the warmest month ever recorded. Their data set is 136 years. And the July average ocean temperature elevation above the long-term average was the largest amount since data keeping started.

The first 7 months of the year collectively are the warmest recorded, and at this point that makes it highly likely that 2015 will be the warmest full year worldwide, displacing 2014 as the recordholder.

No! You're wrong!

(now, where are jamie's graphs?)

You can just google any random graph and insist that it proves the point you want to make.

hmmm . . . here's the first image returned when I googled "any random graph":

Damn! It does prove I'm right!

Had four inches of rain here on Wednesday.  Halleluja!  We might get a third cutting yet.

4 inches-- that's nuts!

Wednesday was weird. I decided to skip going to and setting up for the farmers market in the Soo because of the forecast, and it was a good thing I did-- 10 minutes after the market opened at 4:00 it started raining and they got half an inch in the next 30 minutes with 45 mph gusts. But at my location 20 miles to the west there was no rain at all that afternoon. Lots of very intense but small cells for several hours, really hit or miss, and all passing through pretty much south to north, which is unusual.

Total rain at the Soo on Wednesday was 0.86 inches, but at the community college a couple miles away from me only 0.22 inches fell (with another 0.5" yesterday).

Nuts is right.  It started raining shortly after noon.  When I got home, the rain gauge had recorded 3.5 inches.  In the morning, it was just short of four.  So, most of the rain came in about four hours.

Hehe, speaking of rain gauges, when my parents went on vacation I would cut the grass, water the plants, etc. Well, my dad knows weather. No matter where they were, he always looked at what was happening at home.

I would often either fill or dump the rain gauge just to see the reaction when they came home.

Here's my hero Buzz trying out his first Welix electric scooter: