06/03/08 What is the Weather Doing?

What Is The Weather Doing? I'm Greg Martin with today's Fruit Grower Report. I'm kind of a weather junkie and my wife laughs at me since I will spend 10 minutes going online to find the current temperature while she opens the front door. But you have to admit that the weather has been a bit odd this year and it has a lot of fruit growers concerned. We have had for the most part one of the coldest springs in recorded history. According to staff meteorologist Tim Creek, don't look for much change. CREEK: Unfortunately the weather over the first half of June looks to be below average in terms of temperatures with a somewhat persistent threat of precipitation. We are going to see an active westerly jet stream centered into the state much of the time and that is going to keep our daytime temperatures cooler than average Creek says that in the breaks between storm activities we will see slightly cooler overnight lows. CREEK: At the same time there are going to be some weather disturbances that push into the area. Right now it looks like possibly later in the weekend and again towards the middle of next week weather disturbances will slide into the area. I don't see these as real wet storms but they are going to bring a chance of spotty showers. And Creek has a caution for fruit growers. CREEK: And of course one thing we will have to watch especially for cherry growers in the area is the potential through the month of June of cutoff lows developing much like we saw about a week ago when we saw 4, 5 or 6 days of consistent shower threats. Much of that precipitation was in the southern basin but it just depends on the location of these cutoff lows. That's today's Fruit Grower Report. I'm Greg Martin on the Northwest Ag Information Network.