The meteorological summer begins officially on Wednesday, but once again it appears that the atmosphere has decided to get the jump on the scientists.
97, set in 1991, which was the prelude to a blistering summer.
But these days, calling for above-normal warmth in summer in Philly is in a league with predicting that the Phillies are going to lose more close games between now and Aug. 31. The city has earned accolades for its heat-wave response system; however, Philadelphia also has not experienced repeats of the punitive, deadly heat waves of the 1990s.Seasonal forecasting remains a work in progress, and its practitioners hold that summer can be particularly challenging as the temperature contrasts that drive the movement of weather systems weaken.
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