BRRRRRRR!: COLDEST SPRING SINCE 1920 IN WASHINGTON STATE... COLDEST JULY IN IRELAND IN 6 DECADES!

THE AVERAGE TEMP IN WASHINGTON THIS SPRING WAS 5 DEGREES BELOW NORMAL:

ll that collective griping about the weather just got validated by some cold facts: The spring of 2011 was the chilliest on record for the state.

James Johnstone, a research associate with the Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean in the UW College of the Environment, said the average high temperature from April through June was 60.4 degrees Fahrenheit, beating the previous average of 61.6 degrees in 1955.

The average high temperature for the period since 1900 is 65.6 degrees.

“The people who have been complaining about the weather have had a right to complain,” said Nick Bond, a UW research meteorologist and the state climatologist. “I rather like it, but that’s my own character flaw.”

While the state shivered through the coldest spring on record, Seattle didn’t have it quite so bad. It was just the second-coldest spring on record, with an average high temperature of 60.4 degrees. Only 1920, with a daily average high of 59.6 degrees, was colder.

AND THEN THERE'S THIS FROM IRELAND:

COLDEST JULY IN IRELAND IN 6 DECADES!:

WE have just had the coldest July in nearly 50 years and there's still no heatwave on the horizon.

All but one of Met Eireann's 11 main weather stations reported below normal temperatures last month, with the greater Dublin area having its coolest July for 46 years.

Dublin Airport's weather station recorded average temperatures of just 13.7C, the lowest since July 1965.

Other freakishly low temperatures included a 1.6C ground level minimum temperature at Valentia, Co Kerry -- the lowest since 1940 -- and a 6.2C air temperature at Cork Airport on July 6, the coldest since 1965.

AGW = TFBS.