What's up with the whacked out weather?

July in Ohio (beginning of time until 2008)
Gargantuan green grass-scape goes golden without glorious, gentle deluge.
Stuffy, stifling, sweat, insects attracted to your sticky, stinking skin.

July in Ohio (2009)
Thunder clouds cover, keep cool, an obscuring cloak of chilly, hellish cheerlessness.
Shivering in shorts, stifled in fleece, Stygian shadows and sad, sunless soybean fields.