I have been following the volcano on Twitter.

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2009/01apr_deepsolarminimum.htm

Deep Solar Minimum

An article from NASA.

No sunspots = cooler planet Earth.

Philly High Today: 63 degrees (4:27 PM)

Too bad Jim, B_Don won't have time to play..he'll be in classes. (ahem!)

Thanks for the prognostication, David.

I want the coolest summer on record.... :)

late August ?

Oh it's snowing up there by then.

:-)

Just kidding.

Thanks for the relatively good news David. You're dead on about Western NY State. The southeastern end of the Green Bay in Wisconsin is like that as well :-) You KNEW I was going to get Green Bay in here somehow.

When I was teaching I always put an "extra point" question at the end of each exam and often it was trivia and not related to the subject of the test. Once I asked them to name the Bay on which the city of Green Bay was located...you will not believe the answers I got. Rare among them was "Green".

They have great summers in Western New York State. Low dew points = low humidity, comfortable due to Lake Ontario's cool water temp.

People up there take WINTER vacations, not summer vacations. The summers up there can be priceless.