Volume 11 , Issue 26

NOAA Climate Prediction Center forecasts

www.cdc.noaa.gov -- "The most recent U.S. government (CPC) temperature forecast for June 2009 shows a tilt of the odds towards warmer temperatures that covers all of our area of interest, the Interior Southwest. This portion of the forecast matches both long-term trends and lingering La Ni?a impacts, even though the latter is discounted as an influence due to its rapid weakening this spring.

The precipitation forecast for June 2009 (below) is dry for northern Utah and northwestern-most Colorado, while an anticipated early monsoon onset gives much of Arizona and New Mexico above-normal odds for moisture next month. The area in between this dipole of above-normal precipitation chances to the south and below-normal odds to the north is left uncommitted

"EC" = equal chances of above/near-normal/below normal conditions. Both forecasts are taken from the monthly outlook website that is updated on the third Thursday of each month (as well as on the 1st of each month with an updated outlook.
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