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				100F Today in New Orleans!...And it's not Summer!!
				Posted: Mon Jun 12, 2006 9:46 pm
				by Sean in New Orleans
				Regional Max/Min Temp and Precipitation Table
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ASUS64 KLIX 130012
RTPLIX
TEMPERATURE AND PRECIPITATION SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA
730 PM CDT MON JUN 12 2006
LOWEST LAST 24 HOURS. HIGHEST PAST 12 HOURS. PRECIP LAST 24 HOURS.
READINGS AS OF 06/13 AT 00Z OR 7 PM LOCAL TIME.
STATION                  LOW  HIGH   PCPN
SHREVEPORT                69    96   0
MONROE                    71    96   TRACE
ALEXANDRIA                69    97   0
LAKE CHARLES              71    98   0
LAFAYETTE                 75    99   0
BATON ROUGE               70    99   0
N.O. ARMSTRONG INTL       79    96   0
N.O. AUDUBON              79    100   0
N.O. LAKEFRONT            MM    MM   MM
SLIDELL                   72    99   0
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/lix/cgi-bin/get ... n=0&max=20 
			
					
				
				Posted: Mon Jun 12, 2006 11:38 pm
				by Bunkertor
				Is severe weather related to higher temperatures ? I mean, sure, but how is it related for example in Oklahoma, where is no ocean near...
			 
			
					
				
				Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 12:06 am
				by bob rulz
				What do you mean it's not summer?
			 
			
					
				
				Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 12:15 am
				by all_we_know_is_FALLING
				Summer starts like June 21 or June 22.
My thermometer said 98 here in NW MS, earlier. It's quite hot for late Spring. I'm used to this heat in late July - early September.
			 
			
					
				
				Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 12:36 am
				by Sean in New Orleans
				Bunkertor wrote:Is severe weather related to higher temperatures ? I mean, sure, but how is it related for example in Oklahoma, where is no ocean near...
It depends on humidity...but, the hotter the weather, the more violent our thunderstorms become in the late afternoon (if the conditions are right..and they usually are most of the Summer).
 
			
					
				
				Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 12:40 am
				by all_we_know_is_FALLING
				Bunkertor wrote:Is severe weather related to higher temperatures ? I mean, sure, but how is it related for example in Oklahoma, where is no ocean near...
You have to have other conditions to get severe weather besides heat.
 
			
					
				
				Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 12:44 am
				by Sean in New Orleans
				Most of our severe weather, along the Gulf Coast comes from the Seabreeze...these conditions, which are prevalent for most of the Summer, produce violent thunderstorms that can produce over 5 to 6 inches of rain in an hour.  This year, looks to be a dry hot Summer for the Central Gulf Coast, with a dominant ridge over the area for a majority of the time (with a few shifts), hot temperatures, and lower tropical activity.
			 
			
					
				
				Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 8:36 am
				by bob rulz
				all_we_know_is_FALLING wrote:Summer starts like June 21 or June 22.
The calendar summer, maybe, but meteorological summer is June, July, and August. The hottest temperatures of the year are always offset from the calendar seasons by a few weeks.
 
			
					
				
				Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 9:20 am
				by Bunkertor
				OK, thanks for the information !
It´s the same with us over here. It´s so hot, some roads had to be closed because of molten asphalt-glue...
			 
			
					
				
				Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 9:25 am
				by Scott Patterson
				It is pretty hot here too, but at least we have cool nights.    Yesterday, for example the 
official high was 91 and the 
official low 38, but some of the the outlying areas are cooler at night and warmer in the day.
The calendar summer, maybe, but meteorological summer is June, July, and August.
True.    The 
astonomical summer is the one that begins on June 21.     The National Weather Service uses the 
meteorogical summer in calculating all averages.     It is always June through August.
The 
climatological summer is the 1/4 of the year (~91 days) when the average temperature is the highest.     In Salt Lake City (where the previous poster lives or in NW Colorado where I live, it is somewhere between June 7 and September 7.    It is not the same everywhere.    In parts of California, for example it can be August through October. 

 
			
					
				
				Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 9:32 am
				by JonathanBelles
				100f ouch
			 
			
					
				
				Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 6:22 pm
				by bob rulz
				Bah, 100 is nothing. We get that several times a year here.
Of course...without the humidity.