Today marks the first day of Meteorological Summer!!! No, not the official day of summer like most of you think. In the weather community, to keep things easy and straightforward for data and information, we split the seasons in three month increments. Meteorological Spring started on March 1^st, and ran through May 31^st. The summer portion begins today, and will end on August 31^st.

Some key things to remember from the spring season:

*We had 63 rain days. This is almost 70% of our days in spring featured at least a trace a precipitation or more. Do we live in Seattle?

*March 13^th was our highest snow total day in spring with a total of 8.7”. The whole season only had 13.6”.

*The warmest day was 87 degrees on May 16^th. The coolest temp was March 11^th in the morning of 14°.

*Five tornadoes occurred in Wisconsin, none in southeastern Wisconsin though.

The Climate Prediction Center has their “Meteorological Summer” outlook from a temperature and precipitation perspective. They’re forecasting above average temperatures and average precipitation. The way they project these forecasts are through long-term computer models. Let’s see if they come into fruition.