Kathryn’s post reminds me. The Goldbergs have done their cross country drive/trip to Alaska thing many, many times for the better part of the last decade. This year was — by far — the coldest summer we’ve experienced. On the drive West, the only objectively hot part of the drive was through Montanna and a bit of Wyoming, and even then it wasn’t especially hot, just typically hot. Everywhere else it was — and has been – surprisingly mild, or even a bit chilly. Alaska was cold and wet. The pacific northwest has been a bit chilly. Of course, it might mean nothing. But if it were blazingly hot, we’d be hearing it’s proof of global warming.