Good Wednesday, everyone. We are wrapping up the month of May with near normal temps and some scattered storms. That’s a pretty tame setup for what has proven to be a pretty volatile month. Now, it’s time to focus on early June and the start of meteorological summer.
This final day of May will feature a storm or two blowing up with highs in the upper 70s for many areas…
Day one of June will feature more of the same with some scattered storms and lots of upper 70s for highs.
Temps may spike a bit to start the coming weekend, ahead of a system diving in from the northwest. The European Model continues to show this as a big bowling ball upper low dropping in from the northwest…
Ahead of that, numerous showers and thunderstorms look to develop…
With that type a system diving in, the same model run shows a pretty stout area of below normal temperatures into the first full week of June…
Highs on this same model run early next week go beyond cool and get into the chilly range for summer. Check out the euro highs for the first 3 days of next week…
I’m not even close to convinced those are correct, but it proves there are zero signals for real summer heat showing up.
Make it a great day and take care.
Cool!
Thanks Chris, We need to study why the weather is this way currently. It seems that trough over the Great Lakes can’t go anywhere but south keeping us in this cool pattern. The only explanation I can give is that the Pacific Ocean surface sea temperatures are warming along with the Atlantic. This would cause a ridge to develop to our west and also in the Atlantic Ocean. This is very complicated. In the short term, we can enjoy the cooler temperatures, but not the thunderstorms. Everyone have a great day.
“We need to study why the weather is this way currently”….. Ummmm no we don’t there’s nothing drastically unusual about the weather we are having, it’s weather we are in a pattern trust me no big deal. Some summers are hotter, others are cooler some have more rain other summers are more humid. If we were looking at low temperatures in the upper 30’s low 40’s and high temperatures in the upper 50’s to mid 60’s yeah that’s extreme. A little below normal in temperatures and above in the rainfall department just is not a earth shattering thing.
Looks to be par for the course….if Christmas has been at or near the 70’s the past couple of years then why shouldn’t June be in the 60’s. Can we squeak out a 69 in July?
Please don’t tell me that we will be wearing a light jacket at night in June. That just isn’t summer..
I do remember going night fishing many years ago and it getting pretty cool in June. I guess it does happen.
It seems we’ve been in the same pattern since last fall. we had short cold spells last winter but mainly warmer than normal and spring has been the same warms up for three days or so and then turn cooler than normal. So it’s possible summer maybe short live this year, but time will tell. Have a good day and thanks Chris in what you do.
Today makes 18 of 31 days it has rained this month.
Its 2017….we should understand by now that no season is the same as the year before it or the year after it. Can we please stop with all the chicken little talk? No the Earth is not facing armageddon! No man cant do a single thing about the climate.