Weather watching

There is going to be quite a bit of cloud cover, showers and thunderstorms and are going to be numerous nearly every day this week and just like the storms we had this weekend, some may produce wind gusts over 50 miles an hour along with torrential downpours and frequent lightning. A storm in Brevard County this weekend produced 70 mile per hour gusts.

Right now I do not see any tropical Cyclones threatening our area during the next two weeks but there is a possibility of something in the western Gulf of Mexico that could move toward Louisiana in about a week.

Summer begins on Sunday, June 20th. The Summer Solstice is the longest day and the shortest night of the year. This is also the day of the year when the sun is highest in the sky but the hottest weather usually doesn’t come until August, this is called seasonal lag.

Weather tidbits for the week, the Cicadas were so thick in the Sky West of Washington D.C. last week that they showed up on weather radar! There were no tornado fatalities in the United States during the month of May for the first time in seven years and that is wonderful because there were 289 tornadoes. That bright planet that you can see in the Western sky after Sunset is our evening star, Venus. You can reach me anytime if you need weather information, email weather1@charter.net