by Northern News Now meteorologist Dave Anderson
Weather and space nerds united in joy last month when GOES-19 was launched. It will sit 22-thousand miles above the Earth and keep an eye on the weather from Africa to New Zealand. For our part of the globe, GOES 18 will continue to do the job.
The satellites seem to have missed the storm that recently blew down a bunch of trees in Tettegouche State Park. That makes sense because the resolution of a picture taken from 22k miles up is one square kilometer. Something smaller than that like a rogue cumulonimbus cloud just won’t show up. Maybe the next series of weather satellite will solve that problem?
Big storms may not be a big problem this June. The forecast for the month ahead says the temperature will be near normal but rain will be two inches short of normal. The first to the fourth may be drizzly and cool. The 5th to 11th should go sunny and mild with occasional thunderstorms. The 12th to 18th could feature a warm spell which may trigger some scattered rains. The 19th to 23rd could cool down and dry up. The rest of June should go sunny, warm and dry.
If June turns out to be normal for temperatures, the rest of the summer will go to the hot side according to the Old Farmer’s Almanac. They think record heat will be with us in July and August. They remind us that last year was the hottest in recorded history, which means the year 1880. We have a shot at beating that only a year later.
