Anyone else having very unusual weather for September too?

[Jamison]

We're still waiting for some fall-like weather here in St. Louis, MO. Lately we've been sweltering in mid-upper 90* temps. In most years I've noticed we tend to average in the low 80's, which is about normal for this time of year here.

[Mutley]

1. Last week we started in on the early fall temps...

but this week it's been very warm and muggy. But I live in Maryland so I'm probably getting some heat pushed north from Ophelia.

[deminks]

2. We've had about 5 inches of rain here overnight in NE Kansas

It is training over us. Four counties under flood warnings until this afternoon.

http://www.wunderground.com/radar/radblast.asp?ID=TWX&theprefset=RADSEV&theprefvalue=1

[nickinSTL]

3. finally cooling a bit this week in St. Louis

but, I agree, it's been unusually hot this late.

[redsoxliberal]

4. hot as piss here

[Castilleja]

5. In my S. Texas city it has been over 100 degrees

for awhile now. It is usually hot here, and we hit around the 100's, but not this many days in a row. I work outside, and it is really getting tiresome.

[Dogmudgeon]

6. Still above-average in Philly

It's usually in the 70s at this time of the year, but temperatures have been an average of ten to fifteen degrees above normal.

Some of the treetips start turning color late in August, but I haven't seen it yet, for the second year in a row. The actual fall-color display has been starting later, been more intense, and lasts longer, too. Not by a tremendous amount, but it's not difficult to tell.

There has been a strange shortage of yellow jackets, but plenty of wasps -- usually springtime fauna -- are still making nests. This trend is about five years old. (Being allergic to yellow jackets, I welcome it, but it's still a bit odd.)

The Fall hasn't "felt right" to me in a couple of years. I just thought I was becoming wacky in my old age, but once the weather anomalies began to pile up, I started to wonder whether I wasn't picking up on some subtle climate changes.

Spring has also been late for several years, though the last freeze has come earlier. If the climate is changing, maybe it is giving us new, temporary seasons while it adjusts itself.

This is all speculation and intuition, tentative until proven. But I've been proven correct too many times recently to just dismiss it.

Anyone had the same idea?

--p!

[benfranklin1776]

7. Same in Pittsburgh.

Dry and un seasonably warm. Even the rains from Katrina and Rita were minimal compared to the remnants of the hurricanes we were swamped with last year, which is not necessarily bad considering the flooding those caused but we have been in a rather pronounced drought since June. Still no discernible foilage change here in the first week in October which is later than normal for this area. The seasonal anomalies you refer to are an interesting possibility and a worthy area of inquiry. I have noted that Spring is a vanishingly smaller season every year in the Northeast. We seem to get stuck in a rainy unseasonably cold pattern beginning in late April and staying through Memorial Day followed by an abrupt summerish warmup. It is related to a large blocking high pressure system in Greenland that forms every year about that time and causes a deep low over Hudson Bay to form which would typically be a normal winter pattern.

[HeeBGBz]

8. Our trees haven't started changing color

Usually by the end of September we have colorful foliage. Nothing much at all yet. It's still green.