Weather forecast for June through August

In the past few weeks, we've seen terrible flooding in the mid-West, premature heat on the Eastern Seaboard, and an official drought declared in California. According to NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration of the U.S. Department of Commerce), the average U.S. temperature for 2007 was officially the tenth warmest on record, and globally, seven of the eight warmest years on record have occurred since 2001. Climatologists are now struggling to differentiate between "normal" fluctuations that can result in extreme…