Summary For June

After a wet and stormy May, June 2009 will be remembered for it's very warm temperatures-and also it's occasional storminess.

If you leave here in the Midsouth, you are all too familiar with how hot and humid it can be here. Dew points rise-along with the mercury-a stifling mixture that can create dangerous heat indexes readings. All you have to do is step outside, walk to the mailbox and by the time you make it back to the house you are soaked in sweat! And if you have to work in that environment- it's literally breathtaking! June was that kind of month-and for the most part a dry month.

Temperatures started rising upwards to the century mark and flirted with it for nearly two straight weeks. Very little precipitation fell during June- unless you were lucky enough to be under one of those stray storms. There were a couple of instances where we had back door cold fronts- cold fronts that enter from the NE instead of the NW, the usual direction in which cold fronts move in North America. In those instances, most areas of the Midsouth received some relief from the heat-albeit temporary.

On June 30th, one of these "back door fronts" brought severe weather to our local area. Several areas in Drew and Chicot Counties suffered wind damage, with trees falling on homes and across roadways. The city of Dermott was especially hard hit.

See later posts for June weather photos.