Meteorological summer is underway

Meteorologically speaking, the beginning of June means two things. 

Of course, the start of the Atlantic hurricane season which runs until the end of November. But since we don't deal with hurricanes all that much up here in northern Illinois, it more importantly commemorates the start of meteorological summer! 

 

Officially, summer doesn't start for another couple weeks but to meteorologists and climatologists it starts today. Meteorological Summer is the three month period of June, July and August that climatologically are the three hottest months out of the year. The average high temperature for the beginning of June starts out in the upper 70s, rising to the low/mid 80s by the end of the month.