How is everybody feeling about the Season so far

[Stormsfury]

Didn't Dallas,TX, have a record 46 consecutive 100's back in July 1980 ??
None of that extreme this year so far.

Ken

Try 42 days (although I thought it was more).

...1980...
A record forty-two consecutive days of 100 degree heat finally came to an end at the Dallas-Fort Worth Airport. July 1980 proved to be the hottest month of record with a mean temperature of 92 degrees. There was just one day of rain in July, and there was no measurable rain in August. There were 18 more days of 100 degree heat in August, and four in September. Hot weather that summer contributed to the deaths of 1200 people nationally, and losses from the heat across the country were estimated at twenty billion dollars.

Highest temperatures at the DFW airport.

HIGHEST TEMPERATURES ON RECORD...

1. 113 JUNE 26 1980
113 JUNE 27 1980
2. 112 JUNE 28 1980
112 AUGUST 11 1936
112 AUGUST 18 1909
3. 111 SEPTEMBER 4 2000

[Derecho]

I agree with most, that while we are having a slow start,

It's not a slow start; it's NORMAL start.

[Trader Ron]

It's not a slow start; it's NORMAL start.[/quote]

I agree 100%.

[Anonymous]

Interesting. I also remember 1980 as an active November here in the SE and it snowed 3 inches here in coastal SC just after X'mas ! As I remember, lots of frost here in December 1980 first half, and a much colder second half thereafter. Below frz highs here Dec.21, then 33/15 here X'mas Day along with high winds during an arctic outbreak, followed by the snow Dec.27th. Unfortunately, it was all gone the next morning as a strong easterly fetch took over during the night.

[Yankeegirl]

Its been a boring season as of yet, but being in here, chatting with all of you makes the time go by fast! This just gives me more time to learn about storms and abbriviations before one forms... Then I wont sound like an idiot when everyone is talking about it...lol...casue you all know as soon as one forms the chat room is going to be packed! Well you all carry on... Im sure when it fianlly decides to rain, it will POUR!

[Anonymous]

1980 is one of our analog years. In that map USAwx1 posted...as he pointed out, the heat (and therefore ridging) was centered in the Plains. Now look at the tracks of all the GOM storms in 1980. Allen, Danielle, Hermine, and Jeanne were ALL shoved W towards MX and TX...by the same ridge that kept the Plains warm in the summer. THIS year...the heat has been less extreme and focused more in the SE, if this pattern persists it would make it difficult (but not impossible) to get another Allen. The slight coolness in temps E of the MS river will help curve GOM storms to the N rather than W...a strong reason why TWW and I have FL Panhandle at a high chance of getting a hurricane landfall. If this steering configuration persists for the next 2-3 months, look for more of the GOM action focused in the E...perhaps more like 1953.

[abajan]

A pretty normal season so far. Better fasten your seatbelts because the SAL seems to be weakening:

http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/tropic/real- ... l-atl.html

Sea surface temps are good and there's hardly any shear between the Antilles and Africa:

http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/tropic/real- ... g8sht.html