What's That I See, Summer?

Written by: Brian Neudorff

There was a definitely a roll reversal for the months of April and May. In April, our high temperature reached 80 plus degrees three times. Once at 80, the other two were 85 degrees or warmer with the warmest being 86 on April 19th. For the month Rochester was 7 degrees above average.

Then May, we only reached the 80s once and it was 83 degrees on Memorial day. For the month, we were a little over 2 degrees below average. It finally looks like we will start to see our weather reflect the season. We are 18 days away from the summer solstice, but we will finally get a stretch of warm weather towards the end of the week and into the weekend.

As of Monday, the StormWatch 8, 7 day forecast was calling for Thursday into Sunday to be in the 80s and close to 90 on Friday. There is still a lot of time between now and then and it looks as we will be on the northern fringe of the warm temperatures.

We will start to see a change in the jet stream pattern as it lifts more to the north here in the east. This will allow the hot steamy warmth that has been trapped in the deep south to spread northward. Places in the Ohio Valley will definitely see 90 degree readings this week, it will be warm but we will have to wait and see if it gets that warm here in Western New York.