July 2, 2025 • 7 mins
Brandon Peloquin of NOAA, looks at the long term weather patterns and also gives us an education on landspouts and lightning strikes
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Eight on the Legacy Retirement Group dot com phone line.
Let's welcome him in from Noah, the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration in Wilmington, Ohio. Brandon Peliquin, how are you, Sara,
going to talk to you again?
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Hey, good to.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Talk to you.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Good morning and happy early summer.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Yes, yes, I want to talk about the rest of
the summer and into the fall and kind of what
you're seeing as far as a long range forecast. But
you know, we did have this stretch of really extreme
heat in here the last couple of days. Are we
going to see another stretch like that this summer before
it's over?
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Yeah? We really saw a pretty impressive stretch of heat
and humidity during the second half of June. Remember early
June wasn't so bad, right, We were a little bit
below normal temperature wise, But mid to late June really
cranked up the heat. I would say we had a
heat wave last week, but fortunately that heat wave has
broken at least to some degree for this week.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
And you know, I was thinking about last summer, Brandon.
I think it was sort of mid June when it
just sort of stopped raining for about a month and
a half and we went into that drought situation that
wasn't the case, and we've had plenty of rain during
these hot temps. So what's the difference there.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Yeah, last year we went into a drought situation and
that certainly wasn't a good thing, and that was on
the heels of it being very wet and active in
the springtime. I think we're different this summer. June's been
a pretty wet month. Even though we were hot, there
were a lot of days with showers and thunderstorms around.
You know, we ended June above normal precipitation wise at
(01:36):
the main reporting station in Columbus, and you look at
some other stations, especially east and south of downtown, and
they got even more rain in the month of June.
I'm not seeing a really dry pattern over the next
few weeks or a couple of months, but I do
think we get closer to normal instead of maybe being
wetter than normal like we were in June. I think
(01:56):
for rainfall a mounts in July and looking into August,
probably more normal typical summer type patterns that are going
to hold, and that'd be about normal precipitation. But I
do think temperatures will stay above normal most of the time.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Yeah, I'm just looking at the you know, the five
or six day forecast here from our local partners at
ABC six. I mean, it's going to be into the
nineties by this weekend. But it seems like every single
day there is a chance for scattered pop up showers
and storms. Pretty typical every afternoon where you know, it
kind of heats up and you see the clouds and
the sky darkens a little bit and it starts to raine.
(02:32):
That is kind of what you're talking about as far
as a typical summer pattern.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Yeah, that's more of a typical summer pattern. Actually. For
the next couple of days, I think we get a reprieve.
It looks dright today, it looks right tomorrow, and maybe
an isolated pop up on the Fourth of July holiday,
but I think most of us are dry on the
Fourth of July itself as well, and then we get
more pop ups, more typical pop ups into the weekend
and early next week, and I think that's what we're
(02:56):
going to look at for most of the rest of
the jaw July and maybe in August as well. We'll
get a cold front moving through here and there, and
that may make the storms be more widespread. But you
know what, that's not uncommon in the summer either to
get a front move into the area.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Right, Brandon Peloquin from Noah joining us on the Legacy
Retirement Group dot com phone line. We had a scary
moment a couple of days ago. We had some showers
and storms move in as is typical, but there was
a lightning strike at Northland High School just here in
central Ohio, branded and a couple of folks were injured
in that. Thankfully no fatalities, but they were in critical
(03:33):
conditions sent to the hospital. How rare is how rare
are lightning strikes? And it's my understanding there's a number
of different kinds of lightning strikes as well. Can you
kind of go over some of that.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Yeah, Well, the good news is, over the years, and
probably in part through better understanding of lightning and enhance
safety and prepared dis messaging, over the years, the number
of lightning injuries and fatalities has gone down. If you
look at the stats like twenty twenty two, and you know,
there were more injuries than fatalities in Ohio and across
the country than we've seen in recent years. So that's
(04:06):
certainly good news. But you know what happened several days
ago as a reminder, if you're outside, you're in danger.
You know, we always say when thunder wars, go indoors
because if you can hear thunder, you're in danger to
potentially be struck by lightning. So, you know, it's really
important that people understand that all storms produce lightning, and
we don't issue special lightning warnings. We issue warnings for
(04:30):
flash flooding and tornadoes and when there's straight line damaging
winds and large hail expected, but every thunderstorm light has lightning.
There's no special warning we issue for lightning. So when
you hear thunder, go inside and be safe.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
That's a good tip. That very good tip there, and
like I said, thankfully just does some injuries in this
case and no fatalities. The other sort of I guess
anomaly that happened the other day in Marion they spotted
a up. It was a kind of a tense moment
because they had a land spout which resembled a tornado.
It resembled the funnel cloud. How does a land spout form?
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Yeah, well, you know, land spouts essentially are weak tornadoes
that usually occur over a very small area and don't
last very long. They're different than the tornadoes that you
might get with those super self thunderstorms. Remember March fourteenth
of last year, Indian Lake up in Logan County had
(05:23):
a really strong win. But you know Delaware Licking, they
had tornadoes from those big super cell There's rotating storms
as well that we can get in the spring and
really any time of the year, but more common in
the spring. What forms these land spouts is kind of
a different mechanism. They're not coming from those big super
self thunderstorms that sometimes we get with these big severe
weather and tornado outbreaks. Usually from much weaker storms, sometimes
(05:48):
even showers. I mean, certainly there's still some very small
rotation in there, and that rotation comes in contact with
the ground. Okay, that helps it, you know, be classified
as a weak tornado. But like I said, usually they're
they're they're small, they're short lived, they're they're weak, and
when they happen, the damage is minimal. But I'll tell
you what, it's one of these lands south land spouts form.
(06:10):
I still don't want to be close to it. I
want to be inside and away from it, because certainly
in that very small area, with that rotating area where
there's a wind, there can be damage.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Interesting any kind of land spout form into a tornado,
then eventually, if it keeps.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Going well, Usually these landst out land spouts, they don't
form into into bigger tornadoes. You know, they're they're small,
they're week, They do their thing over a couple or
a few minutes and then they're done with. But certainly
there can be more. So always have to keep an
eye out on those types of days where there's the
potential for these weak tornadoes or land spouts to form.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
So any do you have any data Brandon looking past
you know here the next four to six weeks, I
know you kind of dip your toe into what we
could see as a typical pattern the you know, remainder
of July into August. How about the US fall into
this winter. Do we have any indication are we gonna
see warmer than normal temps or maybe more rain or
less rain than normal.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Yeah, when you look at the large scale patterns, it
looks like temperatures will favor being above normal. Which you
gotta keep in mind, is we had into September and October.
I mean climatologically or typically, that's a time where we
see temperatures start to lower. The atmosphere usually dries out,
so we usually have much more dry days in September
(07:31):
and October, and I think that's going to hold this
year too. Little warmer temperatures, which is not necessarily a
bad thing once we get into September and October, that
can create some pretty nice fall like conditions as football
starts and all that fun stuff. I think precipitation wise,
we'll kind of trend back to normal as we head
into late summer and early fall.
Eight on the Legacy Retirement Group dot com phone line.
Let's welcome him in from Noah, the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration in Wilmington, Ohio. Brandon Peliquin, how are you, Sara,
going to talk to you again?
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Hey, good to.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Talk to you.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Good morning and happy early summer.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Yes, yes, I want to talk about the rest of
the summer and into the fall and kind of what
you're seeing as far as a long range forecast. But
you know, we did have this stretch of really extreme
heat in here the last couple of days. Are we
going to see another stretch like that this summer before
it's over?
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Yeah? We really saw a pretty impressive stretch of heat
and humidity during the second half of June. Remember early
June wasn't so bad, right, We were a little bit
below normal temperature wise, But mid to late June really
cranked up the heat. I would say we had a
heat wave last week, but fortunately that heat wave has
broken at least to some degree for this week.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
And you know, I was thinking about last summer, Brandon.
I think it was sort of mid June when it
just sort of stopped raining for about a month and
a half and we went into that drought situation that
wasn't the case, and we've had plenty of rain during
these hot temps. So what's the difference there.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Yeah, last year we went into a drought situation and
that certainly wasn't a good thing, and that was on
the heels of it being very wet and active in
the springtime. I think we're different this summer. June's been
a pretty wet month. Even though we were hot, there
were a lot of days with showers and thunderstorms around.
You know, we ended June above normal precipitation wise at
(01:36):
the main reporting station in Columbus, and you look at
some other stations, especially east and south of downtown, and
they got even more rain in the month of June.
I'm not seeing a really dry pattern over the next
few weeks or a couple of months, but I do
think we get closer to normal instead of maybe being
wetter than normal like we were in June. I think
(01:56):
for rainfall a mounts in July and looking into August,
probably more normal typical summer type patterns that are going
to hold, and that'd be about normal precipitation. But I
do think temperatures will stay above normal most of the time.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Yeah, I'm just looking at the you know, the five
or six day forecast here from our local partners at
ABC six. I mean, it's going to be into the
nineties by this weekend. But it seems like every single
day there is a chance for scattered pop up showers
and storms. Pretty typical every afternoon where you know, it
kind of heats up and you see the clouds and
the sky darkens a little bit and it starts to raine.
(02:32):
That is kind of what you're talking about as far
as a typical summer pattern.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Yeah, that's more of a typical summer pattern. Actually. For
the next couple of days, I think we get a reprieve.
It looks dright today, it looks right tomorrow, and maybe
an isolated pop up on the Fourth of July holiday,
but I think most of us are dry on the
Fourth of July itself as well, and then we get
more pop ups, more typical pop ups into the weekend
and early next week, and I think that's what we're
(02:56):
going to look at for most of the rest of
the jaw July and maybe in August as well. We'll
get a cold front moving through here and there, and
that may make the storms be more widespread. But you
know what, that's not uncommon in the summer either to
get a front move into the area.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Right, Brandon Peloquin from Noah joining us on the Legacy
Retirement Group dot com phone line. We had a scary
moment a couple of days ago. We had some showers
and storms move in as is typical, but there was
a lightning strike at Northland High School just here in
central Ohio, branded and a couple of folks were injured
in that. Thankfully no fatalities, but they were in critical
(03:33):
conditions sent to the hospital. How rare is how rare
are lightning strikes? And it's my understanding there's a number
of different kinds of lightning strikes as well. Can you
kind of go over some of that.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Yeah, Well, the good news is, over the years, and
probably in part through better understanding of lightning and enhance
safety and prepared dis messaging, over the years, the number
of lightning injuries and fatalities has gone down. If you
look at the stats like twenty twenty two, and you know,
there were more injuries than fatalities in Ohio and across
the country than we've seen in recent years. So that's
(04:06):
certainly good news. But you know what happened several days
ago as a reminder, if you're outside, you're in danger.
You know, we always say when thunder wars, go indoors
because if you can hear thunder, you're in danger to
potentially be struck by lightning. So, you know, it's really
important that people understand that all storms produce lightning, and
we don't issue special lightning warnings. We issue warnings for
(04:30):
flash flooding and tornadoes and when there's straight line damaging
winds and large hail expected, but every thunderstorm light has lightning.
There's no special warning we issue for lightning. So when
you hear thunder, go inside and be safe.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
That's a good tip. That very good tip there, and
like I said, thankfully just does some injuries in this
case and no fatalities. The other sort of I guess
anomaly that happened the other day in Marion they spotted
a up. It was a kind of a tense moment
because they had a land spout which resembled a tornado.
It resembled the funnel cloud. How does a land spout form?
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Yeah, well, you know, land spouts essentially are weak tornadoes
that usually occur over a very small area and don't
last very long. They're different than the tornadoes that you
might get with those super self thunderstorms. Remember March fourteenth
of last year, Indian Lake up in Logan County had
(05:23):
a really strong win. But you know Delaware Licking, they
had tornadoes from those big super cell There's rotating storms
as well that we can get in the spring and
really any time of the year, but more common in
the spring. What forms these land spouts is kind of
a different mechanism. They're not coming from those big super
self thunderstorms that sometimes we get with these big severe
weather and tornado outbreaks. Usually from much weaker storms, sometimes
(05:48):
even showers. I mean, certainly there's still some very small
rotation in there, and that rotation comes in contact with
the ground. Okay, that helps it, you know, be classified
as a weak tornado. But like I said, usually they're
they're they're small, they're short lived, they're they're weak, and
when they happen, the damage is minimal. But I'll tell
you what, it's one of these lands south land spouts form.
(06:10):
I still don't want to be close to it. I
want to be inside and away from it, because certainly
in that very small area, with that rotating area where
there's a wind, there can be damage.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Interesting any kind of land spout form into a tornado,
then eventually, if it keeps.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Going well, Usually these landst out land spouts, they don't
form into into bigger tornadoes. You know, they're they're small,
they're week, They do their thing over a couple or
a few minutes and then they're done with. But certainly
there can be more. So always have to keep an
eye out on those types of days where there's the
potential for these weak tornadoes or land spouts to form.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
So any do you have any data Brandon looking past
you know here the next four to six weeks, I
know you kind of dip your toe into what we
could see as a typical pattern the you know, remainder
of July into August. How about the US fall into
this winter. Do we have any indication are we gonna
see warmer than normal temps or maybe more rain or
less rain than normal.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Yeah, when you look at the large scale patterns, it
looks like temperatures will favor being above normal. Which you
gotta keep in mind, is we had into September and October.
I mean climatologically or typically, that's a time where we
see temperatures start to lower. The atmosphere usually dries out,
so we usually have much more dry days in September
(07:31):
and October, and I think that's going to hold this
year too. Little warmer temperatures, which is not necessarily a
bad thing once we get into September and October, that
can create some pretty nice fall like conditions as football
starts and all that fun stuff. I think precipitation wise,
we'll kind of trend back to normal as we head
into late summer and early fall.
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