Summer weather outlook

I don’t know about you but I am on total pins and needles as I look toward summer, what with extremely low snow pack, persistent drought in Idaho, El Nino vs La Nina and their potential effects. DS Mixed signals regarding what summer months weather might look like in the continental U.S.. As USDA meteorologist Brad Rippy explains. Speaker 2: Kind of between La Nina and El Nino. So we really don't have a signal coming in from the Pacific. That means that other factors lately we've been seeing kind of an odd blocking pattern starting to bring cold air down. And it looks like that general pattern may continue, but these blocking patterns are very tough to foresee more than a few weeks ahead of time. So it's kind of a low confidence summer forecast, unfortunately, in terms of how weather patterns might play out. Speaker 1: Yet what several forecasters are expecting for June, July and August is. Speaker 2: A ridge of high pressure for the summer in parts of the western United States, so we may see drought lingering roughly across the western half of the country, maybe even intensifying Western US looks hot, the northwest looks dry. There's that persistence or development drought forecast for roughly the western half of the country. Pacific coast to the Great Plains. So hats off to you ag producers who have to plan ahead in every sense of the probability space. Oh and one other thing, good luck.