The Gore Effect

This might explain the hail, sleet and snow showers we've had today: Al Gore was in Pittsburgh yesterday giving a commencement address at Carnegie Mellon University.

Of course, he spoke about Global Warming:

"You, I hope and expect, will be called upon to be part of the third hero generation in American history," by countering the threat of global warming, he said.

"We face a planetary emergency," Gore said. "The concentrations of global warming pollution have been rising at an unprecedented pace and have now given the planet a fever."

Carnegie Mellon had provided "great leadership in confronting what I regard as the most serious crisis our civilization has ever confronted," partly by becoming a major buyer of retail wind power, he said.

He must have pissed off Ma Nature.

The weather in Pittsburgh yesterday? A couple of degrees below the averages.

Pittsburgh, PA May 18, 2008:

	High	Low	Precip
Actuals	62 F	43 F	0.58 in.
Averages	72 F	48 F	---
Records	86 F (1992)	41 F (1993)	---

Might explain that cold front that came through late in the day.

Did I mention the hail this morning? How about the snow flurry we got at 10:30 AM when the temp was 38 F? Or the showers mixed with sleet we’ve been getting much of the morning? They say it will get up to 50 F today. We’ll see.

I’m real glad I didn’t bother to have any central air conditioning installed in the Aerie.

Global warming my a$$.