Tuesday, June 30, 2009

What a rough June

Mark

Hi everyone here’s what’s On My Radar today…although the month ended on a nice note there’s no doubt that this June was one of the gloomiest June’s we have seen in quite some time. 90° days…are you kidding me? Only once did the high temperature rise above 80° (June 7th 81°). The average high for the month was just over 3° cooler than average.

Although the skies were frequently gray and it SEEMED as though it rained a lot, we actually were only slightly (.14”) wetter than average. It was the day after day of drizzle and mist…scattered light rain showers back on the 21-24th with that stubborn ocean storm to our east. In fact, for the year we are actually in a rain deficit…nearly 2” below normal since January 1st.

So, what’s ahead you ask? Well for the next few days we will be influenced by low pressure swirling over the Great Lakes keeping temperatures below normal. In fact, the official temperature forecast from the Climate Prediction Center is calling for cooler than average temps through July 10th! Scroll down…..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

TEMPERATURE FORECAST FOR JULY 6-10TH

While at the same time calling for near normal precipitation.

PRECIPITATION FORECAST JULY 6-10th

So it actually looks like a decent stretch of weather coming up later this week (Friday and on) through the weekend. No sizzling heat just high 70s to near 80° and mainly dry conditions. Personally I like this kind of weather…no air conditioners needed…noone suffering from heat related problems. Yes, I know the beaches are a little cool but there’s still time for 90-95° and stiffling humidity…it just looks like this year it WON’T be here for the Fourth of July holiday! Thanks for reading