Summer: still loading 🔁
Hello there!
Meteorological summer is almost 10 days old but Mother Nature apparently didn’t get the memo. She’s still stuck on the loading screen and things won’t change during the first half of the upcoming week.
📈 However, the second half of the week will have you flipping on the AC as an air mass from the Desert Southwest briefly surges eastward.
The weather for next weekend is looking excellent at the moment.
Monday: cool for the time of year; a passing PM shower can’t be ruled out
Tuesday: cool with clouds and sun; a PM sprinkle in spots
Wednesday: turning warmer with a mix of sun and clouds
Thursday: very warm with plenty of sunshine 🌡️
Friday: partly sunny, remaining very warm, and humid with a shower or thunderstorm possible
Saturday-Sunday: not as hot; dry for the weekend 👌
Looking ahead to the week of June 17th, several hot air masses appear poised to track eastward, likely bringing some high heat to the Hudson Valley. This could see temperatures rising into the 90s on several occasions. Signs are that the hot pattern will stick around — the summer solstice is on Thursday, June 20th, after all 🌞
The animation below illustrates the cross-country air mass connection that will see warmer than average temperatures, colored red, spiking eastward from time-to-time over the next 15 days, especially during the week of the 17th.
Where the weather won’t be fun this week: Florida
Heads up! The sunshine state is about to become the soaking state. Significant impacts are possible later this week as downpours become entrenched there, especially in the southern and western part of the state.
Australia trip 2024 🦘
It was mostly sunny with a chance for kangaroos, crocodiles, cassowaries, koalas, birds, snakes, and spiders in my world over the last week — Kate and I spent time in tropical Far North Queensland, a rural part of Australia about 500 miles south of its northern tip.
It’s a place where the natural world poses a risk to your daily existence. This makes it both concerning and captivating, because you never know what you might see or experience. We tried our luck on a crocodile cruise, crocodile-infested beaches, feeding a 50 million year old bird species that has six inch retractable razor claws, and petting kangaroos. Perhaps most dangerous of all was the price of a pint of Ben and Jerry’s ice cream in Australia: $14.50. You could faint.
Alas, enjoy these pictures from a memorable trip across the Tasman Sea…
Have a great week and don’t pay $14.50 for your next ice cream ✌️
PS: next week, I’ll share pictures from Earth’s oldest rainforest - the Daintree