Polar Vortex In July

Our eight year old was insisting at the dining room table today that cold summer is on its way. No sooner did I power up the computer than this image appeared!

The Washington Post asks  "What’s behind this unusual winter weather pattern primed for the dog days of summer?" It goes on to answer,  "A lot of it is simply chance (randomness)." As always, anything that doesn't fit the theology of global warming is noise -- we totally get it.