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Here are the temperature extremes for June across the country......
HIGH 124 at Death Valley, CA their reports come in a few days late sometimes
LOW 16 at Sunset Crater, AZ...
LOW for Alaska 24 degrees
For the midwest in June, temperatures averaged above normal over all of Kentucky and southern Indiana with normal or below over areas to the north and northwest.
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Here are the Louisville numbers for June.....
HIGH 95 on the 4th
LOW 61 on the 15th
There were 4 days with highs in the 70s
18 days with highs in the 80s
8 days with highs in th 90s (still awaiting today's high)
7 of the 8 days in the 90s were in the first 10 days of the month.
Back on June 11th I posted that there would be less than 5 days of additional 90s in June with an outside chance at zero....we came close.
Temperatures averaged 3.3 degrees above normal for the month.
It still looks like this will be the warmest departure from normal for the 3 summer months.
It was another rainy month with a total of 7.14 inches in Louisville.
That.s 3.38" above normal or 190% of normal for the month.
There were 10 days with thunderstorms.
The 4 tornadoes touch downs in Jefferson County tied the record for most in one month in the county with January, 2008.
There is still a debate going on in weather circles about the Jeffersontown tornadoes. Click on the map for a larger view. The tracks all line up. The twister lifted up briefly and then touched backed down twice. The NWS is listing this as 3 tornadoes but you could also say it was just one with a longer track with a brief interuption. By the official rules though, once it lifts up, when it comes back down that is considered a different tornado.
There were 13 days with fog
There were 7 clear days
18 partly cloudy days
5 cloudy days
There were 3 days with an average wind speed of over 10 mph for the 24 hour period. That included the day with the tornadoes.
The calmest day had an average wind speed of 2.5 mph.
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A lightning strike at a school in Uganda has killed 19 students and 1 teacher. 12 of the students died instantly and the rest at the hospital. 70 students were injured.
The school has over 800 students and the buildings were in bad shape and had no lightning rods.
The school was hit by lightning in 2001 when 3 people were injured.
Storms have been widespread in Uganda with over 30 people killed in the last couple of weeks.
For more information on this......click HERE
The capital of Uganda is Kampala and it is the stormiest place in the world. They average 242 days a year with thunderstorms.
The second stormiest location is nearby in the eastern Congo with 228 days a year with storms.
The stormiest location in the U.S. is the I-4 corridor between Tampa and Orlando, Florida.
Lakeland, FL is the stormiest place in the U.S. with over 13o days a year with storms.
Louisville averages about 40-50 days a year with storms.
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Updated Wednesday at 6:00 PM.... I've got your red, white and blue holiday weekend forecasts.....
RED as in red hot.... this is the forecast for Louisville for this weekend on the right.
WHITE as in white hot..... this is the weekend forecast for Death Valley, CA
BLUE as in you'll turn blue with this cold......this is the forecast for Barrow, Alaska
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Updated Wednesday 9:45 AM.....Tropical Storm ARLENE has developed off the Mexico coast with winds of 40 mph.
Click on the map for a larger view of the forecast track.
Some strengthening is possible before the storm moves onto land. It is not expected to become a hurricane.
Here is a list of hazards from the National Hurricane Center.....
RAINFALL...ARLENE IS EXPECTED TO PRODUCE TOTAL RAINFALL ACCUMULATIONS OF 4 TO 8 INCHES OVER THE MEXICAN STATES OF TAMAULIPAS... VERACRUZ...AND EASTERN SAN LUIS POTOSI...WITH POSSIBLE ISOLATED MAXIMUM AMOUNTS OF 15 INCHES OVER MOUNTAINOUS TERRAIN. THESE RAINS COULD CAUSE LIFE-THREATENING FLASH FLOODS AND MUDSLIDES.
WIND...TROPICAL STORM CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED TO REACH THE COAST WITHIN THE WARNING AREA BY THIS EVENING...WHICH COULD MAKE OUTSIDE PREPARATIONS DIFFICULT OR DANGEROUS.
STORM SURGE...A STORM SURGE WILL RAISE WATER LEVELS BY AS MUCH AS 1 TO 2 FEET ABOVE NORMAL TIDE LEVELS ALONG THE IMMEDIATE COAST NEAR AND TO THE NORTH OF WHERE THE CENTER MAKES LANDFALL. NEAR THE COAST...THE SURGE COULD BE ACCOMPANIED BY LARGE AND DESTRUCTIVE WAVES.
For more details from the NHC.......click HERE
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Updated Tuesday at 5:20 PM......
There is still plenty of snow on Mount Rainier, Washington....elevation 14,411 feet.How much snow is there further down? Read this from the National Park Service.....
The photo below was taken at the Sunrise Visitors Center 3 days ago.
Our next extreme is humidity. Yesterday afternoon Las Vegas had a temperature of 106 and a dew point of -12 which gave them a humidity of 1%. I have never seen one that low in the major cities of the southwest.
The next extreme is heat. Here is the forecast for Death Valley, CA.
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Updated Tuesday at 2:30 PM...... Yesterday I posted about the heat burst in Spencer Co., IN. We now have reports that the same heat burst hit parts of Evansville and Owensboro. The temperature at Owensboro rose to 102 degrees yesterday afternoon while the rest of the region was in the mid 80s. This was at the official weather station.
During the decaying stage of a thunderstorm, if rain evaporates into a layer of cold, dry air, that parcel of air can decend rapidly toward the ground heating up with the loss in altitude. This can result in a 20-30 degree rise in the temperature in a few minutes. Yesterday, people commented that the wind felt like a blow torch.
Scroll back to June 10 for details on the Wichita heat burst.
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An asteroid with an estimated size between 15 and 65 feet missed the earth by about 7,500 miles this afternoon. Although that may seem like a large distance, in astronomical terms it is close.
This was 3% of the distance between the earth and the moon.
This was less than 1% of 1% of the distance between the earth and the sun.
The earth was never in any danger from today's asteroid.
Astronomers say there may be a gigantic asteroid with a higher chance of hitting the earth.......in the year 2182. For more details....click HERE
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Updated Monday at 5:20 PM.....
The current temperature in Childress, Texas is 16 degrees cooler than yesterday...still hot though with a reading of 101. Amarillo which had an all-time high of 111 yesterday is at 89 this afternoon.
Here are the current hot spots in the Lone Star State.
Pecos 111
Wichita Falls 108
Wink 106
Lubbock 105
El Paso 105
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This afternoon a gust of wind damaged several farm buildings near Rockport, Indiana which is about 80 miles west of Louisville. A witness at the scene the wind felt like a blow torch.
Areas near a dying thunderstorm can experience a wind that heats as the air from the storm descends and this can temporarily warm the temperatures by more than 20 degrees for a few minutes.
Earlier this month there was a heat burst at Wichita, KS in the middle of the night the temperature rose to over 100 degrees. I have a detailed post on June 10.
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