Thanks for bringing up that post from Andrew a week ago. He admits he just shitposts here. Of course that is completely obvious.

There was a lot of ridging, including the heatwave at the beginning of September 1988. September 1988 had a cooler period in the middle of the month. This September hasn't had anything like that. In both cases ridging was dominant.

Meant to reply to this... Honest answer is that I'm not all that interested in polling. Maybe 1 day before election might be interesting to dive into the details but frankly they are so unreliable that it's not worthwhile for me to spend time analyzing them. Too many points of failure. Just like I don't put too much effort into the long range GFS snow maps. Might glance and look for trends but...other than that....next. Y'all's memories and obsessions of dates and numbers with weather is pretty nifty but I do not (cannot) do that.

If the shoe fits. I am glad you think it's a good campaign strategy. Reality is Trump is working hard for Kamala by trying to be as unhinged as possible. You might like Trump's rhetoric but might not like Kamala winning as a result.

We’ve had eight month long winters here these past couple of years thanks to the Twenty-Twenties Troughaganza. After some glorious years last decade, the ocean flipped back to fridge mode, troughs became almost continuous for months on end, and coastal warmth is precious and fleeting. I’ve heard much of the 1960s had a similar pattern? But add human caused climate change on top of it.