Summer 2013 Thread — Northern Hemisphere (climate, snow, hot, warm)

[chicagogeorge]

Pretty weak summer this year

[Ed's Mountain]

Funny, I always thought 1988 had this reputation as an excessively hot year but doesn't seem too anomalous at all.

[chicagogeorge]

1988 was hot and in the Midwest we did have an exceptional amount of 100+ days, however, nationally, the number of 100+ days must have been lower elsewhere according the bar graph above. Still in the top 10 though. Like 1980 was nothing special here in the Midwest, but there must have been a lot of century mark readings in the south and south west that year.

[alex985]

Originally Posted by chicagogeorge

Pretty weak summer this year

Wow, looks like the weakest in 100 years, lol they'll probably blame this on climate change too...



But because of this, I'm expecting next summer to be brutal. I'm expecting this winter to be cold however.

[chicagogeorge]

I too have a very strong inclination that the US will see a deep winter this year. I HOPE SO!



Bastardi showed a similar atmospheric set up during late summer early autumn back in 1973






Well this was the winter of 73-74....



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[alex985]

They're saying it might an El Nino winter, so a winter like 2009-2010 might happen again (bad news for you in Chicago, great news for me in Tallahassee ) but we'll see. If that's the case then a fast spring warm up will probably occur....like in 2010.

[chicagogeorge]

Originally Posted by alex985

They're saying it might an El Nino winter, so a winter like 2009-2010 might happen again (bad news for you in Chicago, great news for me in Tallahassee ) but we'll see. If that's the case then a fast spring warm up will probably occur....like in 2010.

Wait not so fast.... 2009-2010 was very snowy here and pretty cold (though not frigid) thanks to a persistent negative AO

It was the 7th snowiest winter on record. I wouldn't complain if we got over 52 inches of snow this winter

Btw, the winter of 73/74' we had 54 inches of snow, ranked 6th one ahead of 09/10'.

Chicago Seasonal Winter Snowfall Rankings




But winter is a LONG time off... Still lots of hot/warm weather to talk about in the coming days and weeks

[alex985]

Originally Posted by chicagogeorge

Wait not so fast.... 2009-2010 was very snowy here and pretty cold (though not frigid) thanks to a persistent negative AO

It was the 7th snowiest winter on record. I wouldn't complain if we got over 52 inches of snow this winter

Btw, the winter of 73/74' we had 54 inches of snow, ranked 6th one ahead of 09/10'.

Chicago Seasonal Winter Snowfall Rankings




But winter is a LONG time off... Still lots of hot/warm weather to talk about in the coming days and weeks

Sorry, I guess I was thinking more of March 2010 for some reason , but a winter like 2009/2010 wouldn't be bad

1973/1974 looks terrible for me

[cloudcrash619]

Originally Posted by alex985

Sorry, I guess I was thinking more of March 2010 for some reason , but a winter like 2009/2010 wouldn't be bad

1973/1974 looks terrible for me

09/10 was an awesome winter! Tallahassee came close to snow - parts of the panhandle saw up to 2 inches of snow I think. 73/74 only gave me 1.6" of snow, so I'll pass on that too!

[chicagogeorge]