September starts with a TORCH

Well with september right around the corner..figured may as well post the triple digit temperatures expanding north! Models are showing 105 for Quincy,IL

http://www.twisterdata.com/data/models/nam...BOVE_GROUND.png

Winters of the 1980's.

I have done alot of reading on winters and summers in the 1980s, and have noticed quite a few similarities of the last few here in the US. Many people compared the winter of 2010-2011 to the latter part of the 1980s some breaking records from that time. This summer has been absolutely bone dry here in east central Illinois, some local farmers are saying this almost as worse than the summer of '88.

Then there is the heatwave of the summer of 1980, which again featured extremely hot/ humid air, and major drought conditions! Again eerily similar! My father actually told me stories about the winter of 1981-1982, he worked for a tow trucking company, and clearly remembers a day when the wind chill was what he recalls -50. He claimed semis were frozen on the side of the road, because diesel would freeze and the trucks would lock up.

What I thought was really interesting was, he Said the following winter of 82-83 was exceptionally mild and remembers not much snow and seasonably warm!

So what do you guys think? Midwest seen an extremely harsh winter 2010-2011. Could 2011-2012 be the no show winter? Something to think about


Also, didn't know where to post this, it's historical so I stuck it here