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Relentless rain and cool weather since early June have sent visitors scrambling home and washed away millions of tourism dollars across the Northeast...
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Even when the sun shone, a chilly breeze left beachgoers with goose bumps.

“That wind is cold. I can’t believe there are people on the beach,” Melinda Ross, of Knoxville, Tenn., said as the temperature nudged 70 degrees Thursday.
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Under sunny skies, Friday marked only the seventh day in two weeks that Aquabaggon, a water park in Saco, was able to open this summer.

“That’s depressing,” said Lynn Hurst, general manager. “This park has been open for 30 years, and we’ve never had a start like this before.”

In addition to being rainy, the summer could rank among the coolest in the Northeast, according to the Northeast Regional Climate Center at Cornell University.

Record Cold in Regina, Estevan

For people camping at Craven, or elsewhere, it was a chilly start to the weekend in parts of southern Saskatchewan.

Environment Canada meteorologist Jean Theriault (TERR-ee-oh) says Regina broke the record cold temperature for July 11.

"3.1 recorded this morning, the previous record was 3.9, an old one, recorded in 1917," Theriault said Saturday morning. Estevan also set a new record, but Theriault couldn't confirm if there were any otherse.

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People who are using cooling units like air conditioners or refrigerators that use R-22 as the refrigerant must replace their old cooling units with new ones that have environment friendly refrigerants.

Rally to save 625 wind farm jobs [by the way, also allegedly to save your grandchildren from burning in hellfire]

Jon Woods, chair of UNISON's Portsmouth branch which organised the rally, said: "The aim is to save the Vestas factory and to save over 600 jobs here on the island and in Southampton.

"It's absolutely criminal for the only manufacturer of wind turbines in the country to consider closing in the middle of an economic recession when unemployment is rising and jobs are going everywhere.

"If people are laid off here on the island they're really going to struggle to find any alternative work.

"It is also criminal - given we're facing major climate change catastrophe - to actually have the only wind turbine factory close.