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Private weather forecaster Accuweather is predicting hotter-than-normal temperatures for much of the United States this summer, the company said in a press release.

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STONERS
May 18, 2007, 12:05 a.m.
Temperatures will be the hottest in the Northeast, the Great Lakes region and the Midwest. Texas is expected to be one of the few exceptions to the expected hotter-than-normal conditions.
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Truzseeker
May 18, 2007, 12:41 p.m.
Live in the southwest, and no change in the high desert.
Already tuned my swamp cooler for the summer, and used an under-the-counter filter to reduce scaling and premature water pad wear. Today it will be about 93, and look forward to getting home.
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FordTruck5Speed
May 18, 2007, 12:44 p.m.
It won't really start warming up until early to mid June. The current pattern we're in is not allowing the warmth to fully take hold. Years like this one with a reversing el Nino have tended to be warm in the summer anyway, with early season tropical development. Judging by the disturbed weather near the Yucatan peninsula, that may be a possibility in the next 5 to 10 days
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TimALoftis
May 18, 2007, 1:44 p.m.
Based on the NASA story of last week, this headline is something that we may see for many years/summers to come.
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Tigra
May 18, 2007, 1:56 p.m.
Yeah, I figured the Northeast would get a blazing summer again- its been a while...Time to clean out that AC filter
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THOMNH62
May 18, 2007, 2:17 p.m.
just put in a pool last yr, didn't get to use it, come on glabal warming
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RickyDawkins
May 18, 2007, 4:06 p.m.
Unfortunately, climate change is real. See here for common climate myths..
http://politics.netscape.com/story/2007/05/18/t...
Human CO2 emissions are too tiny to matter
* We can't do anything about climate change
* The 'hockey stick' graph has been proven wrong
* Chaotic systems are not predictable
* We can't trust computer models of climate
* They predicted global cooling in the 1970s
* It's been far warmer in the past, what's the big deal?
* It's too cold where I live - warming will be great
* Global warming is down to the Sun, not humans
* It's all down to cosmic rays
* CO2 isn't the most important greenhouse gas
* The lower atmosphere is cooling, not warming
* Antarctica is getting cooler, not warmer, disproving global warming
* The oceans are cooling
* The cooling after 1940 shows CO2 does not cause warming
* It was warmer during the Medieval period, with vineyards in England
* We are simply recovering from the Little Ice Age
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joeblowe
May 18, 2007, 4:34 p.m.
"Accuweather" - HarHArHAr - talk about an oxymoron. {B>D)=
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THOMNH62
May 18, 2007, 4:45 p.m.
yes Ricky dill hole, climate change is real and has been happening few thousands of years, please stop using all the oil, I need your portion to heat my pool, drive my Hummer, fuel my boat, heat my 6000 sq foot house and travel the world.
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agentX
May 18, 2007, 5:01 p.m.
Great. Time to recharge the Freon and clean the filter in the AC.
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B737Tech
May 18, 2007, 5:37 p.m.
Every summer gets hotter & every winter see less fridgid weather. We've had no snow in our area of sw Va. in several years. No such thing as global warming, huh?
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FordTruck5Speed
May 18, 2007, 5:49 p.m.
I was waiting for the global warming crowd to show up. Has anyone considered that the SUN is more active now than it was 30 years ago when eveyone was screaming "ice age"? The guys at NOAA and NASA do good work, dont get me wrong, but their analysis is based of the GFS computer model, which has trouble forecasting from more than 3 days out. There is absolutely no way that one can trust an 80-year forecast from that thing. Do you also realize that the sustained cold over the northeast this winter happened without a significant snowcover (New England excluded)? That to me shows how impressive the cold really was this season.
My point: there are a lot of different factors involved when talking about climate change, and humans are only one of those factors, and most likely not a significant one, since climate has been in constant flux since the dawn of time.
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Harbeas
May 18, 2007, 6:21 p.m.
Like the weather people can really predict the weather. Their track record is rather poor to say the least.
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CrazyRay
May 18, 2007, 8:43 p.m.
They said this last summer, then when it didn't happen they blamed El Nino...
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FordTruck5Speed
May 18, 2007, 8:49 p.m.
Loq, what was the point of your story? That humans can screw things up? Thanks for the insight, but you missed my point completely. Yes, we should take care of where we live, don't litter, yadda yadda...I get that. But we're talking about large-scale global climate change, which as I pointed out, has been going on since the planet started spinning, and humans haven't been on it all that long by comparison. Before we declare this global warming thing a done deal and cease all debate, why don't we look at the bigger picture, and not just the last 30 years before putting more restrictions on economic activity.
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FordTruck5Speed
May 18, 2007, 9:49 p.m.
When you say "they", make sure you specify the NOAA and NWC guys. Accuweather had figured out the El Nino months before it was declared by NOAA, and based the winter forecast on a reversing El Nino, which of course, it did.