People all across the U.S. are asking a similar question: "What happened to summer?"
A check on Twitter will find a recurring tweet theme from people in New England. For example, "It's so depressing that it's the middle of July, cloudy, and barely 70 [degrees]." Another reads, "Had to wear my winter coat; it was 48 degrees this morning...in July!"
Marc Morano with ClimateDepot.com says all across America, record low temperatures have been broken throughout the summer. He blames that on a recent trend of global cooling that has been in place for more than seven years.
"The reason Climate Depot is covering this is because every heat wave, every extreme storm, everything the media tries to promote when it's the other way -- every hurricane, every drought, flood...they always blame everything on global warming," he notes. "So, all we are merely doing is pointing out some of the dramatic record low temperatures -- dramatic to the point where some meteorologists have dubbed 2009 the year without a summer."
Nashville, hometown of global-warming enthusiast Al Gore, has broken a record low in the month of July -- a low that was set in 1877. Morano says there is nothing to be alarmed about, and that cold and warm cycles are a part earth's natural flow.
Morano does note some irony in that this recent cold spell is happening while Congress is debating "cap and trade" in an effort to curb global warming.