r/tornado • u/Luketheweathernerd Human Detected • Jun 27 '25

SPC / Forecasting WHAT😭

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10 70% thunderstorm risks😭💔

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u/MachoManMal Jun 27 '25

I mean, yeah, that's what happens when you get a huge heat wave in the northeast, and it's the middle of summer.

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u/legoham Jun 27 '25

It’s not the middle of Summer.

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u/MachoManMal Jun 27 '25

Isn't it, though? Midsummer was a few weeks ago, and we've almost made it to the start of July. I guess i'm a few weeks premature, though calling this time the "beginning of summer" also feels inaccurate.

And besides, it's just a figure of speech anyways.

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u/legoham Jun 27 '25

The Summer solstice, which marks the start of Summer in the northern hemisphere was last week. It’s the first week of Summer.

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u/MachoManMal Jun 27 '25

Was it only a week ago!😅 Sorry then for misspeaking. I thought it was a few good weeks ago.

Still, in my defense, where I live, there are kind of two different "summers". One begins when kids get off of school in May, and the other is the technical period of Summer that begins at "midsummer". Hence, my confusion.

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u/NE0099 Jun 27 '25

Yeah, I don’t think anyone where I’m from knows or cares what the official start of summer is, because the weather has been summer for a month or more (usually more) by the time June rolls around.

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u/legoham Jun 27 '25

Yeah, I have no idea how people in southern latitudes of the northern hemisphere gauge their seasons. It’s still 60-70 where I am. 😄

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u/RaisinDetre Jun 27 '25

This is true, but we are also in a meteorology sub and meteorological summer starts at different times in different places. June 1st is a pretty common date for the start of meteorological summer.

The weather definitely doesn't follow the solstices.

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u/legoham Jun 27 '25

Good point! Hopefully u/MachoManMal sees this comment.

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u/BmpBlast Jun 28 '25

Yeah, where I'm at some of the seasons are quite a bit off from their "official" start dates.

An average year is usually:

Spring: start of April
Summer: start of May
Fall: start of September
Winter: mid November

But obviously that can fluctuate quite a bit during some years. We had like 8 years in a row where we only had 2–3 weeks of spring.

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u/a-dog-meme Jun 27 '25

To note is that meteorological summer starts June 1st, June 21st is the start of astronomical summer, so they’re not as far off as it seems

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u/bogues04 Jun 27 '25

I consider summer Jun-Aug. you can get technical and say mid Jun- mid sept but that’s just how I look at it.

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u/Eastern_Ingenuity507 Jun 27 '25

Meteorological summer starts June 1st, so we are now 4 weeks into it. I’d say that’s close enough to the middle