Jim Stone, Freelance Journalist

It is ****ing COLD in central Mexico

I have mentioned this already, but it needs repeating: It has been raining constantly, at least 120 inches in the last month and a half total and the daytime temperatures are frequently not crawling out of the 60's. I am confident there is weather warfare going on.

Why would it be 110 plus in Canada and not getting out of the 60's in Mexico? How would that be possible? Have they set up an atmospheric conveyor belt of some sort that is taking the air from the northern regions and dumping it on Mexico? I quite frankly do not know how this can be happening, but I'll tell you what it is like:

It is SO COLD that butter that is left out of the fridge which would normally melt to complete liquid this time of year has, for the past month and a half stayed so solid it cannot be nicely spread on hot toast. It can be spread if you sort of wreck the toast but even the hot toast will not melt it. You can forget about spreading it on untoasted bread. It is too stiff. And it has NEVER gotten warm enough since the heat wave in the north started to spread it on bread AT ALL, not even during the peak heat of the day.

This is a TOTAL weather screw up for Mexico, and as a result so damn much rain is falling due to the cold air that nothing ever dries out. It is raining so much that half the time we don't need to pick up dog poop because the rain is destroying it. Normally it would turn to 1/4 weight 1/2 size "easy pick up" pieces in a couple hours this time of year, but no, it's disaster clean up IF it needs to be done at all. Something is causing this, because it is not natural.

To top it all off, we live in the hottest location in this area. There are places nearby that are not climbing out of the 50's. Usually it will hit the 100's here occasionally and the 90's in the cooler areas.