i never did come to a guess as to when the next ice age will start - apart from sometime within 1000 years...
it's bloody hot here today - over 30 deg c in the shade in our garden!
but usually it stays between about 10 and 20 in the weather reports, and about 15 and 25 on our own outdoor thermometers (the weather clowns take the temperature on a cold hill behind wellington city so it's always colder in the news than in reality)
overall it does seem to be slowly getting cooler but aussie had a heat wave yesterday and we are downwind of aussie so it hit us today
this was the view out our window this morning at sunrise - already a hot day, and the air con is going full bore now
For a little hemispherical contrast, here's a shot out my window this afternoon-- ten degrees below freezing and strong winds outside which followed this fresh snowfall from last night:
Supposedly the sun is small right now, at a minimum, so its corona is shrunken, fitting a historic pattern of solar minimums, but those same patterns fit with ice ages of all sizes, so we are due for one starting about now. The best news will be all the 'climate change' professionals will have to shut up and find a new line of work.