The NOAA reports that “we are currently tied with 1998 as the warmest January–September period on record.”
Having now experienced a near-record-breakingly warm summer and fall, I can now report what the effect of global warming will be in St. Louis, Missouri: the normally irritating plague of backyard mosquitos will become an insatiable horde that renders our backyard thoroughly uninhabitable well into October and possibly November.
The Finch and Pea 