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KGW Meteorologist Joe Michaels: June 2007 ArchivesIf you're not ready to be hot just quite yet...you might want to get ready. =) After seeing seeing some clouds for the start of the upcoming week, the jetstream will be pushing to the north...and a huge ridge of high pressure is expected to develop over the entire western third of the country by Tuesday and Wednesday. You can see that jetstream pushing to our north in the map below. The summer solstice...the first day of summer...has come and gone, and with it, the most sunlight we'll see all year. This past Thursday (June 21), the first day of summer, brought us more than 15 hours of sunlight. The sun was also pretty high in the sky...at more than 68 degrees above the horizon. While the sun wasn't quite directly above us, at 90 degrees, 68 degrees is still pretty high! That angle made our sunlight quite bright on Jun... I had the opportunity to attend a climate-change journalism conference this weekend right here in Portland. As a meteorologist, it was a great opportunity for me to brush up on the science, and also get some ideas on what I can do to fight climate change. You may be familiar with the concept. Greenhouse gases...some of which are emitted from cars, power plants, planes, and others...are gases that help warm the planet. The amount of ... |
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