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Record Warmth Lingers; Fire Weather Concerns; Unsettled Pacific Northwest

More record warm temperatures are forecast this week from California, Southwest, Plains then into the Mississippi Valley and Southeast. The warmth combining with dry conditions may result in elevated to locally critical fire weather conditions. Meanwhile, another Pacific system will move across the Pacific Northwest with lower elevation rain and mountain snows. For Hawaii, conditions improving. Read More >

Meteorological summer is officially over and most locations observed a slightly warmer and drier June through August than normal, but generally closer to normal than last summer was. The hottest temperature observed was 98°F at Houghton on June 20th and the coldest temperature was 30°F at Stambaugh on June 4th. The largest single-day rainfall was 2.65 inches in Ironwood on July 4th. See the images below for more information.