And The Reason For The Cap-And-Trade Bill Was?

And The Reason For The Cap-And-Trade Bill Was?

From the July 10, 2009 Wairarapa [New Zealand] Times-Age:

Niwa senior climate scientist Georgina Griffiths said May "broke records from one end of the country to the other - it was the coldest May on record", and there was nothing much to toast in the South Wairarapa wine village, which registered 69 percent of normal sunshine hours for May - the lowest figure for the town since records began.

"In May, Martinborough was gray, gloomy and depressing," she said.

"In June, the east coast strips of both islands were gloomy while sun shone around the rest of the country, like Hamilton which had record sunshine hours," Ms Griffiths said.

Below normal June sunshine (75 - 90 percent of normal) blighted coastal Otago, coastal Canterbury and the East Cape, she said.

It was wet too with double the normal rainfall for May (about 200 percent of normal) in Wairarapa, Canterbury and Otago while much of Northland, Auckland, Wellington and Southland got at least 150 percent of normal May rainfall.

June didn't fare much better as Ngawi racked up a record low topping the mercury at just 6.6C on June 16 - the lowest daily maximum temperature on the books.

June 16 also marked the beginning of a 10-day anticyclone - a high that hung round the country with scant wind and clear skies; "all ingredients in a recipe for frost", Ms Griffiths said.

Wairarapa, alongside most of the lower North Island, experienced the second-coldest June in recorded history, with monitoring equipment in Ngawi and Martinborough clocking average maximum daytime temperatures of 11.6C and 11.9C respectively.

From the July 10, 2009 Connecticut Post:

It's an unusually cool morning, as temperatures are near record-breaking lows for today's date, July 10.

At Sikorsky Memorial Airport, the early morning low was 55, just one degree above the record, set in 1983.

At Danbury Municipal Airport, the low was 50, three degrees above the record low for the date, set in 1953.

A record was broken at Westchester County Airport -- the closest official weather station to Stamford and Greenwich. The low there this morning was 55 degrees, shattering the former record low of 60, also set in 1953.

At Bradley International Airport in Windsor Locks, the early morning low was 51 today, 2 degrees above the record of 49, set in 1963.

From the July 1, 2009 channel 4 in Milwaukee:

MILWAUKEE - July, like March, has come in like a lion. Today's high temperature was 63 degrees, missing by a single degree the all-time record for coldest high on July 1st.

"The record low high temperature is 62 degrees, set in 1986 and 1876," said Storm Team 4caster Brian Gotter. "We got about as close as we could, but there will be no white-out taken to the record books today."

From July 10, 2009 WCVB channel 5 in Boston:

BOSTON -- If you think you've never seen such a cool start to the summer, you are right: It's been more than 100 years since Boston has been this cold in June.

For the period of June 1 through July 8, Boston, Providence and Worcester have had the coolest high temperature on record, according to StormTeam 5's JC Monahan.

The average high temperature for Boston for that time period was 69.7 degrees. That tied the record set in 1903. In Worcester, the average was 69.3 degrees -- the coolest since 1972, and Providence's average high was 72.3 degrees -- the coolest since 1916.