State Climatologist Justin Glisan says the three summer months finished one and a half degree above normal for temperature and were one-point-two inches above normal for precipitation. Glisan says the Climate Prediction Center’s fall outlook indicates the warmer temperatures could continue.
Glisan says there is potentially going to be a very strong El Nino impacting the fall weather.
And there were slightly wetter conditions across much of the state in the fall during those years. Glisan says the warm weather has already caused the crops to grow rapidly and the harvest could get going early as well.
Glisan says we’ll know more about the crop harvest situation as we get deeper into September.
