Brian5671

other reason for starting earlier-kids are bored by mid August...send them back and let them out earlier as "summer itis" kicks in around Memorial day....

you could have the same issues in June with a later start....rob Peter to pay Paul. The real issue is too many needless snow days...we had 2 to 3 days off last year for wet roads...Christ.

and even Sat may be dry...looks like some east/northeast winds with a stratus deck...I've seen worse...

15-16 at least had a fair amount of storminess even if mostly rainstorms...01-02 was warm and dry the entire time outside of a cold 10 days in Late January. The problem with a strong El Nino is that it's often hyped to be this big deal and it verifies warm and generally snowless outside of a couple of cold weeks usually centered around 2/1 give or take. We lucked out on the coast with the blizzard (got fringed here so to speak as we got 14 inches while places just 40 miles south got 30+) Outside of that storm it was basically a 3 week winter with snow chances ending around President's day (big cold snap ending with an inch of snow to a driving rainstorm)

Christ, I hope not. So boring. Those winters however are quite rare.

Hot spots might make a run at 98-100

LOL. We roasted into October last year-there will be no "cold" with those +++ SST's off the coast.

may be ok if it's dry most of the time-crappy would be an all day stratiform rain...

Euro weeklies have AN lasting almost the entire run...Fairly dry too with the lack of tropical activity this year.

Rained here most of June. Really sucked. July was cool and dry like you said and August had 4 weeks of humid/warm, it's like the opposite of a warm winter where you get 2-3 weeks of cold and that's it...guess it's the summer version of that.

.09 here. Activity died further east you go

BUST

August will likely finish +3 to +4 and Feb was a blowtorch as noted above...

solid cloud deck here and temps going nowhere...the gloom does remind me a bit of late Sept or Oct where the sun angle is not enough to burn off the stratus...

72/67 here-cloudy

That is true...while it is a taste of autumn especially compared to what we've had, it's an island of cool in a sea of warmth.

and the heat next week likely won't have 75 degree dewpoints....

BUST. Models have backed off that with the slower fronts-showers/storms overnight but nothing big.

some of those cool August forecasts out there are in big trouble....

not sure if the EURO is on crack but it dumps 5 inches of rain in and around NYC on Sunday

WARM AMO I am thinking contributes...will be interesting to see what happens when the flip to the cold phase occurs...

same ol 100 burnt out songs over and over and over. Worse than a classic rock station...

Holiday tunes...

whoopdee do- a day of 90 in September....it's over as far as the big long lasting heatwave by about 9/1 or so....clock's ticking...days are shortening...soon we'll be singing Xmas tunes...

the "backbreaker front" usually the first sign that fall is right around the corner.