Welcome to The Hottest Year on Record

It sure has been a challenge this year keeping my garden watered and having to worry about my well water.  While I regularly collect rain water, the truth is there has been a lot less of it than in recent years.  I thought Binghamton was supposed to be one of the wettest places in the country.  Not this year.

It's been a problem for everyone this summer in the Southern Tier and the next three months look as hot or hotter as the heat wave continues with little rain in site.  But where is all the rain this summer?

According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Climate Prediction Center in an article printed in The Week, "for the first time on record, every square place inch in the U.S. is forecast to experience above average temperatures for the next three months."  And it's not just in the Southern Tier and Northeast Pennsylvania, but warmer than normal temperatures are in the forecast for the entire Northeast, South, Western States and Alaska.

You can blame it all on unusually warm ocean temperatures.  This year is on track to be the Earth's hottest year ever recorded.  And not only will people suffer but so will wildlife and our food supply. It sure puts danger and strain on the country's aging power grids.