Our summer will be cooler … unless it’s not

[The Straight Story]

Our summer will be cooler … unless it’s not

NOAA sees a season of below-average temps, but other forecasters like it hot.


After 20 years selling ice cream from carts and trucks at metro area lakes, parades and other events, James Freid knows that Minnesotans' love of summer has its limits.

"If it's too hot, nobody buys ice cream," said Freid, whose company, Big Bell Ice Cream, has been in the business for 35 years. "If it gets into the 90s, people want to be inside in the air conditioning. They stop going to the beaches and go to the mall. They close up their windows."

So with "meteorological summer" beginning Tuesday, Freid was encouraged to hear that NOAA's Climate Prediction Center is calling for a strong likelihood of a summer with below-average temperatures across the Upper Midwest. In his view, a cool June, July and August makes Minnesotans bullish on Bomb-Pops.

http://www.startribune.com/local/95234784.html

[Odin2005]

1. I sure hope we have a cool summer here in Fargo.

I HATE HOT WEATHER!!!