IEM Daily Feature
Monday, 19 July 2004

Small Recoveries

Posted: 19 Jul 2004 08:28 AM


View larger image
Hi/lo temps on 18 Jul 2004.
It has been really interesting to note the daily temperature swings this summer. On a very good day, we are lucky to get a 25 degree swing in temperature. There are numerous reasons for this. The most important being that the surface and vegetation are very wet. This means that a good portion of sun's insolation goes into evaporating water instead of raising surface temperatures. It will take more surface drying and a warm SW flow for us to have a chance at 100 degrees this summer.