Summertime Weather (pine, trees, cities)

[oldpartner]

What is summertime weather like in the Tri-Cities area? And, when does summer start?

[jabogitlu]

Summer gears up really good in June. May is warm but can still be chilly.

Classic summer weather here is high 70s to low 80s (June-early July), low 80s to low to mid 90s (late July through early September) with occasional days in the upper 90s or a few in the 100s.

[Tennesseestorm]

Oh yes, I have seen some Aprils in years past with alot of 80s. Remember March of 2007? We had upper 70s for the most of the last two weeks of the month... trees started leafing out all over... THEN disaster struck the first weekend of April 2007. Lows in the lower 20s for 4 nights in a row and some of the coldest temperatures EVER recorded for many places for the month of April. For weeks the trees looked dreadful and many did not even recover. The foliage was destroyed by the crushing freeze. I never want to see that happen again.

I still have one pine tree showing that damage... it had new growth and the freeze wilted the new growth down... it did not die, (the new growth), but it still leaned and now the tree has a "curl" in it there.