Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Western Australia: Coldest June night on record
The cold June just got colder, with confirmation that the state has had its equal-coldest June night on record.
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The sub-zero temperatures followed Perth's second-coldest night on record, with a minimum of -0.6 degrees on Saturday morning, 0.1 degrees above the 2006 low.
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Keep repeating it love, I suppose you get paid by the word...
Brazilian Iced Coffee « Musings from the Chiefio
If the ‘cold in Brazil’ is a longer term change tied to the reduced solar output and / or changes of ocean currents, then we can expect price pressures at the retail side on coffee prices and cost pressures on companies like Starbucks as those input prices impact their ‘bottom line’.

My expectation would be for coffee prices to spike, drop, then start a longer term rise as it becomes clear that one 30 year weather pattern has ended and another has begun. If the patterns extend into Africa and into cocoa growing regions as well, we might see cocoa joining the march higher.

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