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Joe Bastardi, WeatherBell.com chief meteorologist, on the crazy weather patterns of late and their impact on the markets.
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Whether topping the headlines for most of the country.
Just take a look at the front page of yesterday's USA today what's behind the trend in what does it mean for the summer.
Joining me now the man with the answers and who could predict who did predict -- that outlines -- authority chief meteorologist.
For weather bell dot com joke.
The flooding tornadoes the wildfire one -- that you've been talking about this from -- one.
That's like a country song a tumble late and you -- is -- that's exactly right but what's going on is that specific the tropical Pacific is cooling.
That's like turning -- -- -- thermostat and the clash that results when the upper levels of the atmosphere a little too cold for their own good.
Starts producing this type of thing so the natural northward march of spring in the heat that comes out the southwest.
Is being met by very vigorous systems in the mid and upper levels of the atmosphere in this is what happens while so.
Now you know we've gone we've transitioned and this week it's all about people -- whether I mean record breaking high temperatures and all over the country.
Is this -- summer's going to be an -- well New York is going to be one of the normal summer Texas is in bad shape.
This is this may wind up being the hottest drive -- Texas history.
But the midwest and northern plains the Great Lakes mostly Great Lakes.
There -- -- that -- hottest weather -- gone by -- it's 55 in Chicago this afternoon with a windchill in the forties up to be 96 yesterday remember.
There's been just as much cold there around his hot air.
But when the hot air gets in the metropolitan areas that's -- the mainstream media -- all look at -- what's going on.
Some people looking at I thought about you know again this morning when the crop report came -- -- been warning us in this weather horrendous of the crop report.
Corn inventories to be at a 37 year low yeah I mean even in this article yesterday I think they said there were eight weather events that cost a billion dollars or more so by the question now this wild and crazy weather.
About what -- -- continue in a way that really can continue to wreck havoc on our economy.
Well we are going to get it to back off some here because you can't keep running this all the time.
But what we're -- notice over the next week to ten days much cooler over the midwest and Great Lakes those areas have been -- the past.
We -- ten days has happened in 20081.
Ten days of the month of June just scorching after the tornadic may in the cool -- a right.
Then he came and then back down again I do think though that the combination of that as we get the relaxation in the middle of summer.
We gotta watch for the hurricane -- because I think it's gonna have a lot of impact Texas to Arizona.
I don't see the way out of this.
This will be the hottest summer on record in Texas Los Angeles probably another very cool summer so contagious already -- a -- that well no this drought has been starting since September in fact I was on Fox Business last September same look out the southern plains are gonna -- next summer.
Because of this -- -- again in December.
And you could see this happening now the extremes it's happening to.
Is because you're getting a basic shifted the overall -- said 37 years ago right -- -- is going on 37 years.
The Pacific was in its cold state.
It's been it's warm state the last -- thirty years it's turning around now so the forcing is causing.
-- -- some relief to parts of the country but not everyone Texas watch out until the starting he has not wrong folks have all right.
