June 2025 General Discussion

[Spartman]

First month of meteorological summer is near. Looks like we virtually start up warm after the month begins, but it looks to be a head-fake as it goes downhill again by the end of next week.

[Chinook]

I am now smelling the wildfire gunk. Much like the smell of many times in Colorado.

[A-L-E-K]

This could be for the long haul huh

 

 

[cyclone77]

Canada needs to change their flag from this,

 

to this

[A-L-E-K]

Beautiful day between the smoke plumes

[TheClimateChanger]

Looking like it could be a very smoky June on tap.

[Spartman]

1 hour ago, TheClimateChanger said:

Looking like it could be a very smoky June on tap.

Like June 2023?

[Spartman]

[A-L-E-K]

looks wet to start

[michsnowfreak]

Official lows to welcome June in southeast Michigan:
Detroit- 42
Flint- 37
Ann Arbor- 35
Monroe- 41
White Lake- 37

The 42F at DTW is the coldest June temp since 2003.

Some of the coldest spots in the rural western U.P. were in the 20s

[cyclone77]

46 this morning here.  

This is the kind of day when you go out fishing early in the morning you need a hoodie/pants, and by 10am u switch to shorts/t-shirt.

[Brian D]

Good shots at rain coming up. Need lots of precip to stave off worsening drought conditions. Most fires in NE MN are out now. Jenkins fire has some hot spots that are being worked on. Small fire up in the BWCA is being tended too as well. 

[Harry Perry]

46 minutes ago, michsnowfreak said:

Official lows to welcome June in southeast Michigan:
Detroit- 42
Flint- 37
Ann Arbor- 35
Monroe- 41
White Lake- 37

The 42F at DTW is the coldest June temp since 2003.

Some of the coldest spots in the rural western U.P. were in the 20s

Frosty start here this morning at 35°. Coldest I remember for the start of met summer. Also see the high temps backed down several degrees for this week. One 80° day looks likely Tuesday now. Should stay pretty comfortable for the first week of June. 

[OrdIowPitMsp]

Thick hazy smoke all weekend. Might have some surface smoke tomorrow. NWS mentioned the potential for Smoky rain with the cold front tomorrow. 

[A-L-E-K]

On 5/31/2025 at 3:55 PM, A-L-E-K said:

Beautiful day between the smoke plumes

naso lucky today, getting plumed

[Torchageddon]

My low was 3C/37F. The smoke plume has arrived over me looking at sat. With how dank this May was, at least I wasn't breathing in the smoke with that haze blocking out 25% of the sun. Not sure about these sunny days coming up.

[michsnowfreak]

23 hours ago, michsnowfreak said:

Official lows to welcome June in southeast Michigan:
Detroit- 42
Flint- 37
Ann Arbor- 35
Monroe- 41
White Lake- 37

The 42F at DTW is the coldest June temp since 2003.

Some of the coldest spots in the rural western U.P. were in the 20s

Another cool start, 48F at DTW and cooler elsewhere, but this time its warming up rapidly.

[CheeselandSkies]

Haven't seen any aurora pictures from MN/WI/IL from last night so I'm guessing the smoke busted it?

[Chinook]

Look at this. I haven't seen several 20's dew points in June, other than the high country, you know, high plains and Rockies, or behind the dryline with the continental tropical air. What we see here is from polar air.

 

[TheClimateChanger]

2 minutes ago, Chinook said:

Look at this. I haven't seen several 20's dew points in June, other than the high country, you know, high plains and Rockies.

 

I posted this in the Spring Banter thread. Very cold this morning, with several record lows. And some locations not far from all-time monthly record lows. Have to wonder if the widespread pall of Canadian smoke, which somehow has seemingly spread to multiple continents, isn't causing a volcanic winter like effect?

 

[TheClimateChanger]

15 minutes ago, Chinook said:

Look at this. I haven't seen several 20's dew points in June, other than the high country, you know, high plains and Rockies, or behind the dryline with the continental tropical air. What we see here is from polar air.

 

The noon dewpoint of 28F was the lowest on record for the month of June at Fort Wayne, and the 30F dewpoint at 5 pm yesterday matched the record low. Unfortunately, there is clearly some bad data here.

[TheClimateChanger]

3 minutes ago, TheClimateChanger said:

The noon dewpoint of 28F was the lowest on record for the month of June at Fort Wayne, and the 30F dewpoint at 5 pm yesterday matched the record low. Unfortunately, there is clearly some bad data here.

Only one hourly record match at Dayton (31F, at 11pm). The current dewpoint is down to 30F, but it was as low as 25F at 1 pm on June 2, 1994. One bright spot, a lot of these years with record low dewpoints featured BIG time heat at some point in the month of June or later in the summertime (e.g., 1988/1994), so maybe that will be the case for 2025?

[madwx]

3 hours ago, CheeselandSkies said:

Haven't seen any aurora pictures from MN/WI/IL from last night so I'm guessing the smoke busted it?

aurora actually arrived around 2 AM saturday night.  the show was all but over by Sunday evening

[CheeselandSkies]

1 minute ago, madwx said:

aurora actually arrived around 2 AM saturday night.  the show was all but over by Sunday evening

Huh. Unless I was reading it wrong all the social media hype seemed to be for Sunday night.

[roardog]

30 minutes ago, TheClimateChanger said:

I posted this in the Spring Banter thread. Very cold this morning, with several record lows. And some locations not far from all-time monthly record lows. Have to wonder if the widespread pall of Canadian smoke, which somehow has seemingly spread to multiple continents, isn't causing a volcanic winter like effect?

 

That doesn't seem likely since the fires haven't been burning that long and I would think any smoke thick enough to slow daytime heating would also reduce radiational cooling. I think it's just been a long time since we've seen a pattern that can deliver this cold and dry of an airmass in June. We've grown accustomed to what seems like consistent warmth and high dewpoints during the three summer months in recent years or even decades. However, history says this chilly type of airmass does happen sometimes in early June.