This doesn’t prove anything, but: this is the coolest Wisconsin Spring since 1996

And I don’t mean “coolest” as in Fonzie. From the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:

So far, Milwaukee is experiencing its coolest spring in the past 15 years.

The temperatures are nowhere near the record, according to the National Weather Service. But the average Spring day in Milwaukee this year is 8 degrees cooler than it was in 2010, according to the weather service data. We haven’t had a spring this cool since 1996.

From March 20 to April 23, the average overall temperature at Mitchell International Airport was 39.2 degrees. That ranks as the 33rd coolest average temperature in the past 141 years of recordkeeping.

If only looking at the high temperature each day, the average temperature at Mitchell has reached 45.9 degrees. That’s the coolest high temperature average since 1993, according to the weather service data.

Like I said, it’s not proof and, as evidence, it’s too anecdotal to be conclusive by itself. Still:

Time Magazine: “Another Ice Age?” Monday, Jun. 24, 1974

And:

Newsweek: “The Cooling World,” April 28, 1975

It’s just that we’re so very very bad at Predictions Of Doom. I’m supposed to change my whole lifestyle because now the scientists say global warming?