More Extreme Weather Expected for the U.S.
Coeur d'Alene, ID (PRWEB) July 30, 2013 -- Harris-Mann Climatology’s, a short to long-range weather forecasting, stock and commodity service, predict more hot and dry weather for parts of the central U.S. with possible freezing temperatures in the Far North in late August or early September.
Long-term climatologist and forecaster Cliff Harris says, “We likely saw the worst heat and dryness of the summer in the Great Plains and Midwest earlier this month. However, a big high pressure still in the western U.S. is expected to edge to the east in the next couple of weeks bringing hotter and drier weather to the Great Plains and at least the western Midwest. Areas east of the central time zone will likely stay wetter than normal, but still could turn hotter later in August.”
Forecasters at Harris-Mann Climatology point out that the wet spring season delayed soybean crops across the northern U.S. Many of these crops are likely to be immature in late August and early to mid September. This could be a problem as Harris is predicting early freezes across southern Canada and the northern U.S. near the Great Lakes around that time.
“We’ve already seen temperatures in the upper 30s and lower 40s during the last week of July near the Great Lakes. Much colder air is building in Canada and is likely to head southward by the end of next month dropping temperatures to near or below freezing. This event has happened before and is similar to the patterns in 1981, 1992 and 2003,” says Harris.
Another reason for the colder weather in the near future is the cooler than normal sea-surface temperature event, La Nina. According to meteorologist Randy Mann, “Sea-surface temperatures in the south-central Pacific Ocean have been cooling down. In late 2012, ocean waters were in a ‘La Nada’ or in-between the warmer El Nino and cooler La Nina sea-surface temperature event. However, it now appears that we’re in a weak La Nina event which favors early freezes near the Canadian/U.S. border near Labor Day.”
Harris-Mann Climatology also predicts an increase in tropical storm and hurricane activity in the near future. Mann says, “it’s been relatively quiet thus far in 2013. However, we do expect to see more named storms in August and September as we approach the peak of the season just after Labor Day. There’s a good chance that one of those tropical storms or hurricanes will move into the Gulf Coast or the southeastern coastline toward mid to late August. There is a slight that the northeastern U.S., possibly even New York City and New Jersey, will hit by another late season hurricane for the third year in-a-row.”
Harris-Mann Climatology also has a daily advisory service that specializes in providing state-of-the-art short and long-range weather analysis plus fundamental and technical mathematical stock and commodity forecasts. Many investors depend on this service to track grain, soybean and other commodity futures both mathematically and fundamentally. The company also provides free detailed monthly temperature and precipitation forecasts for most U.S. and world cities on their website at http://www.LongRangeWeather.com.
“We’re still in a pattern of wild weather ‘extremes,’ the worst in more than 1,000 years, since the days of Leif Ericsson. For example, early July was one of the hottest periods in the central U.S. on record. Toward the end of this month, by contrast, temperatures in the same general areas were some 5 to 20 degrees lower than normal July averages,” according to Harris.
For more detailed information about Harris-Mann Climatology’s services, go to their website at http://www.LongRangeWeather.com.
Randy Mann/Cliff Harris, Harris-Mann Climatology, http://www.LongRangeWeather.com, 208-818-4300, [email protected]
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