Where's the heat?

[Joel Wright]

It's pretty unusual to be getting close to the end of June and still not have hit 90 degrees around here. This has been a very cool late spring and early summer (met. speaking). All the rain and clouds has really put a damper on the temperatures. I've never seen the corn crop this dwarfed this late in the season. I know the old saying is "knee high by the 4th of July", but it's usually waist or chest high by then. In many areas it's maybe a foot tall at best. Of course, this isn't counting all the fields that are under water, or were under water further dwarfing the plants.

I really haven't been paying too much attention to other areas in the country, but are any of you guys outside the midwest experiencing a cool late spring/early summer? I know the southwest has been baking here lately, but that's fairly typical.

It'll be interesting to see if this cool pattern continues through the rest of the summer. I hope not, since we need the heat and drier weather to boost the crops back closer to normal. At least where they haven't been ruined for the season anyway.

 

[Chris Lott]

It's been nothing but hot here since May. Mid to upper 90's with heat indices well into the 100's. It's just plain hot down here.

 

[Gerrit Gulden]

Yeah, this has been a big problem out here in the Northwest. I am shocked I havent heard anything about Potatoe farming problems yet. I do know that the average start to the Planting season is Memorial day, well because of the weather we planted around a month later. Even those that planted on memorial day are just seeing sprouts come up. My neighbor even said she has concerns that this year's weather will not allow for a full garden harvest, basically things wont grow right, wind damage, frost damage, etc.

I can say that now the weather is somewhat cooperating for my area. We have had low to mid 80's with 90's expected soon, yet there is a storm expected which would drop the temps below average. The thunderstorm season here has been pathetic to say the least. Just until this week have I seen any convection that looked promising. i am desperately hoping for the Southwest flow to pick up so the Monsoon could get underway, this would mean the Upper Level High would dominate the 4 corner region, there would be great heat and some moisture (if the thunderstorms arent too dry) and would help alot.

My corn is only about 3 inches tall, Potatoes are about 4 inches tall and green beans just sprouted and watching the seedlings come up from my zuchinni and cucumber. Spring wasnt much of a season around here. Hopefully summer will last long and the snows will arrive really late this year.

-gerrit

 

[Matthew Fischer]

i don't mind no heat here in chicago area. I work in a warehouse without any AC. Though i know the heat will get here soon enough!

 

[MatthewCarman]

The east coast was already baking for awhile with a week or two of 90-100 degree temps I think back in May or early June.

 

[Susan Strom]

The heat is here. 113 degrees today. That's okay though, big heat always precedes Monsoon. Bring it on.

 

[cstrunk]

IMO - The whole climatological season is behind this year by about 3-4 weeks, which would put us in mid-late May. I don't have any worries that the heat will get here... eventually.

 

[Patrick Martin]

I'm okay with the big heat not being here along the front range of CO. I've only run my A/C 2 times this year, and now that Excel energy raised residential electric rates 38%, I will be hoping to keep the A/C off as much as possible.

 

[rdale]

IMO - The whole climatological season is behind this year by about 3-4 weeks, which would put us in mid-late May. I don't have any worries that the heat will get here... eventually.

I don't things are behind the times - look at the southwest extreme heat!

 

[Kevin Myatt]

It wasn't very many days after I got back from the Plains that we had a heat wave here in Virginia ... temperatures topped 90 for 15 of the first 18 days of the month, a couple of record highs and 95-96 for 4 straight days, which is unheard of in early June here ... we've had below-normal temperatures this week though with the jet stream dip ...

Oh, and I missed an EF-0 tornado on June 3 that was only 4 miles from where I live that just about everybody else seemed to have seen, filmed or directly experienced ... granted, I wouldn't have traded it for the 10 I saw in Kansas in 2 days, but it kinda irks me that I was late on the scene when a tornado was passing so close to home ... I got one decent look at the storm a few miles north and could immediately see structure and rotation that we typically don't get around here ...

 

[David Draun]

I believe here in the Chicago area, we have been at or above 90 degrees at least once or twice. That was in the beginning of June. We are now under or north of NWly flow aloft, keeping us in the upper 70's and low 80's. Looks like another eastern Canadian low is the culprit, that ridge should knock it on outta there pretty soon. Then the heat will roll on in.

 

[Shane Adams]

Pretty mild here so far. We get "windows" in the afternoon for a few hours when the clouds clear and the humidity pours down, but overall it's been pretty tame for this time of year. I'd love another Summer like 2004, the only year in my life where Summer never showed up (one of the other three 'seasons' is always missing in a given year it seems).

 

[Joel Wright]

Well, the lack of real summer heat continues for most of the midwest. I've never seen a summer this cool up to this point. For example...Moline, IL has only one official 90 degree day up to this point. That's insane. No intense heat in the forecast as well. The same is true for much of the midwest and Great Lakes.

 

[Paul Austin]

It's been nothing but hot here since May. Mid to upper 90's with heat indices well into the 100's. It's just plain hot down here.

Ditto, here. Today's the first bearable day I've felt in a while.

 

[Adam Lucio]

Well a quick glance at the longer range GFS shows some really hot juicy air heading up this way about a week from now...its been consistent for a couple days now...its coming!!

Just in time for my weekend Nascar event! better go buy an extra large cooler to keep the brewskies cold =)

NOAAs monthly outlook places my region in a much below average temperature regime for July, but so far all I see on the models is above normal temps on the way...this weekend being the exception.