100F Today in New Orleans!...And it's not Summer!!

[Sean in New Orleans]

Regional Max/Min Temp and Precipitation Table
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ASUS64 KLIX 130012
RTPLIX

TEMPERATURE AND PRECIPITATION SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA
730 PM CDT MON JUN 12 2006

LOWEST LAST 24 HOURS. HIGHEST PAST 12 HOURS. PRECIP LAST 24 HOURS.
READINGS AS OF 06/13 AT 00Z OR 7 PM LOCAL TIME.

STATION LOW HIGH PCPN

SHREVEPORT 69 96 0
MONROE 71 96 TRACE
ALEXANDRIA 69 97 0
LAKE CHARLES 71 98 0
LAFAYETTE 75 99 0
BATON ROUGE 70 99 0
N.O. ARMSTRONG INTL 79 96 0
N.O. AUDUBON 79 100 0
N.O. LAKEFRONT MM MM MM
SLIDELL 72 99 0


http://www.srh.noaa.gov/lix/cgi-bin/get ... n=0&max=20

[Bunkertor]

Is severe weather related to higher temperatures ? I mean, sure, but how is it related for example in Oklahoma, where is no ocean near...

[bob rulz]

What do you mean it's not summer?

[all_we_know_is_FALLING]

Summer starts like June 21 or June 22.
My thermometer said 98 here in NW MS, earlier. It's quite hot for late Spring. I'm used to this heat in late July - early September.

[Sean in New Orleans]

Is severe weather related to higher temperatures ? I mean, sure, but how is it related for example in Oklahoma, where is no ocean near...

It depends on humidity...but, the hotter the weather, the more violent our thunderstorms become in the late afternoon (if the conditions are right..and they usually are most of the Summer).

[all_we_know_is_FALLING]

Is severe weather related to higher temperatures ? I mean, sure, but how is it related for example in Oklahoma, where is no ocean near...

You have to have other conditions to get severe weather besides heat.

[Sean in New Orleans]

Most of our severe weather, along the Gulf Coast comes from the Seabreeze...these conditions, which are prevalent for most of the Summer, produce violent thunderstorms that can produce over 5 to 6 inches of rain in an hour. This year, looks to be a dry hot Summer for the Central Gulf Coast, with a dominant ridge over the area for a majority of the time (with a few shifts), hot temperatures, and lower tropical activity.

[bob rulz]

Summer starts like June 21 or June 22.

The calendar summer, maybe, but meteorological summer is June, July, and August. The hottest temperatures of the year are always offset from the calendar seasons by a few weeks.

[Bunkertor]

OK, thanks for the information !

It´s the same with us over here. It´s so hot, some roads had to be closed because of molten asphalt-glue...

[Scott Patterson]

It is pretty hot here too, but at least we have cool nights. Yesterday, for example the official high was 91 and the official low 38, but some of the the outlying areas are cooler at night and warmer in the day.

The calendar summer, maybe, but meteorological summer is June, July, and August.

True. The astonomical summer is the one that begins on June 21. The National Weather Service uses the meteorogical summer in calculating all averages. It is always June through August.

The climatological summer is the 1/4 of the year (~91 days) when the average temperature is the highest. In Salt Lake City (where the previous poster lives or in NW Colorado where I live, it is somewhere between June 7 and September 7. It is not the same everywhere. In parts of California, for example it can be August through October.

[JonathanBelles]

100f ouch

[bob rulz]

Bah, 100 is nothing. We get that several times a year here.

Of course...without the humidity.