Post by Mathieu on Jul 2, 2009 8:55:44 GMT -5
Guys, these days I'm going through a deep depression (I am not kidding) because of the weather and I really need to talk about it with those who live in the North-East too. I can't take it anymore, I'm so stressed that I'm starting to get some excema. I want to shoot myself.
Here's what metro said this morning about the weather in Boston for the month of June (keep in mind May was not much better and July so far has been atrocious).
Please, those who are from Massachusetts, Vermont, Connecticut, Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island or even New York and Michigan, come share your despair here.
www.metro.us/us/article/2009/07/02/03/2953-72/index.xml
Boston’s summer is an endless bummer
July began Wednesday with torrential downpours, flood warnings and temperatures which struggled to reach the mid-60s.
Just more of the same, it seems.
For about a month, a weather pattern settled upon the Boston area has been loaded with cloudy, cool extremes. Consider these numbers released by the Blue Hill Observatory:
* June 2009 saw sunshine just 27 percent of the time, making it the second gloomiest June on record behind the 25 percent mark in 1903.
* The highest temperature recorded in June was 79, making it just the second June on record and first since 1916 that failed to reach 80 at any time.
* There were 19 days of measurable precipitation in June, second only to the 20 from 1916.
* The average wind speed of 9.8 miles per hour was the lowest on record for the month.
* At Logan Airport the average June temperature was 63.3, nearly five degrees below normal and the sixth coolest mark on record.
For the first time since the Blue Hill Observatory began tabulating prevailing wind directions in 1951, June saw them come from a northerly direction, a sure sign of atypical weather. And the atmospheric hold over the region was something normally reserved for January.
“What happened in June is we saw a pattern where in the upper levels we had low pressure over us,” said Alan Dunham, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Taunton. “It was really typical of what we see in the wintertime, not in June.”
Rainy conditions are expected to last until Saturday.
Here's what metro said this morning about the weather in Boston for the month of June (keep in mind May was not much better and July so far has been atrocious).
Please, those who are from Massachusetts, Vermont, Connecticut, Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island or even New York and Michigan, come share your despair here.
www.metro.us/us/article/2009/07/02/03/2953-72/index.xml
Boston’s summer is an endless bummer
July began Wednesday with torrential downpours, flood warnings and temperatures which struggled to reach the mid-60s.
Just more of the same, it seems.
For about a month, a weather pattern settled upon the Boston area has been loaded with cloudy, cool extremes. Consider these numbers released by the Blue Hill Observatory:
* June 2009 saw sunshine just 27 percent of the time, making it the second gloomiest June on record behind the 25 percent mark in 1903.
* The highest temperature recorded in June was 79, making it just the second June on record and first since 1916 that failed to reach 80 at any time.
* There were 19 days of measurable precipitation in June, second only to the 20 from 1916.
* The average wind speed of 9.8 miles per hour was the lowest on record for the month.
* At Logan Airport the average June temperature was 63.3, nearly five degrees below normal and the sixth coolest mark on record.
For the first time since the Blue Hill Observatory began tabulating prevailing wind directions in 1951, June saw them come from a northerly direction, a sure sign of atypical weather. And the atmospheric hold over the region was something normally reserved for January.
“What happened in June is we saw a pattern where in the upper levels we had low pressure over us,” said Alan Dunham, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Taunton. “It was really typical of what we see in the wintertime, not in June.”
Rainy conditions are expected to last until Saturday.
