Our daughter-in-law commented that it seemed awfully cool here. She is from this area, but now she and my son live near San Francisco where the weather is always cool. Where is the warm weather? Good question.
We have hope that the second half may be closer to normal.This article says we might be facing more of a problem than just a few months of cold weather.
Canada and USA agricultural weather issues and changes in our solar cycles
The key part of this article is contain in a brief statement at the end:Assuming that two thirds of the productivity increase in mid-western states from 1990 to 2004 was climatically driven, then the productivity decline in this region due to Solar Cycle 24 is expected to be of the order of 30%. The total US agricultural productivity decrease would be less than that at possibly 20%, equating to the export share of US agricultural production.What will we send to China in exchange for those lead-painted toys?
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