Where is the summer heat?

Everybody keeps asking when is it going to be hot.

The latest 6-10 and 8-14 day forecast keep us cooler than average with, believe it or not, a better than average chance of rain. Not sure I agree with the rain. Two weeks from today we could see a hot spell.

 

 

 

Our semi-permanent eastern pacific high pressure recently dropped anchor farther west in the Pacific Ocean than normal.  It's absence allowed a trough to develop over the west coast.  The trough keeps driving cooler than average air from Canada into our neighborhoods.  

  

Two weeks, yes two weeks from now, our medium range models forecast a retreat of the jet stream back to the north near the Canadian border, where it should be this time of year.  Look for warmer weather then.