Your Weather News @ June Edition 2026

[Little Blue]

Weather, Weather, Weather....well yesterday was another fine sunshine day.
Today is looking the same here in Indiana. Might have some rain showers
in the afternoon for my local area. Be careful about the UVs of your sunshine.

Currently clear sky at 72°F. Yes, you read it correctly. I plan on doing my Spyder
Ryde Time at sun up (6:12am). I have a special 50 mile ryde for today. Then
breakfast with some good friends. So the wife will be with me this morning.

Today's high should be about 87°F with lots of sunshine and a chance of
getting some rain shower (36%). I hope to be back home before the rain.
Low at 68°F. A friendly temperature for me and my wife.
Get on your Spyder and enjoy yourself.

Sunday's high of 82°F but (49%) on the rain in the morning.
Low at 70°F and partly cloudy in the afternoon.
I am going to enjoy my day as best possible .

What ever you decide to do, be careful and Safe.
More motorcycle issues are happening everywhere.
That's all for now. Till Next Time My Spyder Friends.

 

[canamjhb]

Weather related side-note....... During mornings up until about 2PM the thermometer in the lid of my SS BBQ reads right at 200 degrees before lightning. Later in the afternoons it doesn't get direct sunshine so the temp goes down to ambient air. But, earlier in the day I can start my low and slow BBQ ribs without even lighting the BBQ. Not many benefits of living in the desert summer heat but that's one. Stay safe..... Jim

 

[Ozarkwoods]

But it's probably a dry heat.

Isn’t a bast furnace a dry heat also?

 

[Little Blue]

Weather related side-note....... During mornings up until about 2PM the thermometer in the lid of my SS BBQ reads right at 200 degrees before lightning. Later in the afternoons it doesn't get direct sunshine so the temp goes down to ambient air. But, earlier in the day I can start my low and slow BBQ ribs without even lighting the BBQ. Not many benefits of living in the desert summer heat but that's one. Stay safe..... Jim

Sounds good but I would rather just eat some ribs. Anytime the temperatures are above 85°F this ole man needs AC. (Health issues)

 

[Little Blue]

Monday morning weather from the fair State of Indiana. We received the advertised rain showers Sunday afternoon (1"). Just what we needed and not a drop more. The area farmers are now very happy. Most fields are looking good for beans and corn.

Currently cloudy sky at 69°F. I got some rain showers coming in the afternoon. I will try and enjoy some Spyder Ryde Time this morning. You can do what makes you happy.

High of 78°F with clouds and rain.
Low at 69°F. Good temperatures!
Have a Great day today.

Till Next Time my Friend.

 

[canamjhb]

Currently in the desert: It's 96 degrees, humidity at 12%, very slight breeze, sunny blue sky. The high/low for today will be 101/74. We're starting our summer weather pattern a little early this year. Buy Friday the nighttime low will be 86 degrees with daytime highs about 20 degrees warmer. This is when it becomes uncomfortable. Instantly hot at sunup and no relief from the heat at sundown. "Cooked" my ribs yesterday at 200 degrees for 2 hours in the unlit BBQ. Then another 2 hours on low fire (325). I then removed them from their foil wrapping, heavily covered them with sauce and a sprinkle of seasoning and placed them naked on the grill at 650 to get a good, charred bark. Delicious!!! Stay safe..... Jim

 

[mecsw500]

Cold, wet, and REALLY windy here in my part of South Oz!! Winter officially started for us yesterday, the 1st of June, and it hit with a BANG!! Temps barely climbing into the teens (°C), Severe Weather Warnings; Severe Thunderstorm Warnings; Coastal Hazard Warnings; Gale Force Wind Warnings... and in the last 24 hours, we've had pretty much all of them bundled into one pretty wild time!! The rain started fairly early yesterday, initially a drizzle, but it built into fairly torrential rain as the day progressed; then the thunderstorms and lightning hit sometime during the night, woke us all up! I did a bit of walk around then, but all was secure and dry, so went back to bed and listened to it until I fell asleep again. Woke this morning to the wind still howling and screaming outside, but no more thunder and the rain must've just stopped.

When I went out a bit later this morning (it's 10-ish on Tuesday, 2 June here in Oz) just a few hours ago, there was debris of all sorts blown and washed all over the place - even more than usual, now that suburbia has surrounded us!! I saw all the weather warnings when they first went up, so secured everything I thought needed it at/around our place; checked all the gutters, downpipes, and drains etc; and then when I checked early this morning, I think I might've lost just one of the sparkly discs I use as bird scarers hanging on wires around my fruit trees, nothing else (except maybe a few of the last Autumn leaves) got blown away, and there's been no water ingress anywhere it shouldn't have gone - but all my rainwater tanks are now overflowing and all the drains and gutters are sparkly clean! Then when I went out for a ride this morning, there was blown building rubbish, leaf, and garden litter all over the roads, a bunch of tree limbs down, even a few downed trees, a couple of trampolines that'd been blown onto the road from somewhere, and quite surprisingly (at least to me!) a few 'parked cars' skew-whiff in the middle of road that were somehow washed/pushed out of their usual 'parking spots' and out onto the roadway at odd angles, one with a tree limb thru its windscreen!

And now the sun is bravely trying its best to peer thru the heavy and threatening clouds that are still scudding across the sky, driven by the almost gale force winds we've still got howling out there! So for us here in South Oz, Winter is (no longer just) coming - it's bloidy well here with a vengeance!

Just a few more days until Christmas for you then?

 

[Peter Aawen]

Just a few more days until Christmas for you then?

Nah, Christmas here is usually 'the smell of melting hot bitumen; a cloudless blue sky so big and bright that your eyes hurt if you look up; heat so intense and dry that you can't sweat, it evaporates before it leaves your pores; air so still that you appreciate the breeze caused by the cloud of a billion flies around your head, altho there juust might be enough to make a light breeze, if you're really lucky; a million cicadas going at it so loudly that you hafta raise your voice to be heard by the person leaning in to hear; a real table bending slap up lunch of prawns with thousand island dressing, chicken, ham, mango, green salads, rice salads, greek salads, and a case of beer for each fella (btw, that's real beer too, at least 4%, probably 8%, maybe anything up to 32%, not your 'weak as water' stuff or 'lite' beer!), a few bottles of bubbly for each lady, fizzy drinks of all sorts of hyperactivity causing type for the kids; and either forcibly stilted conversations with the rellies, or something following the five steps of conversation (ie, discussion, presentation of an idea, rebuttal, personal abuse, physical violence) culminating in at least one full-on fist fight; all before anyone gets stuck into the dessert of trifle or pav with lashings of cream, peaches, and passionfruit, or maybe even all of the above piled onto one plate; and then a game of backyard cricket that degenerates into more arguments until people start crashing in a food coma somewhere in the shade; then a couple of hours later, waking and heading off to see 'the other side of the family' and doing it all again for tea!'

So no, cold, wild, wet, and wooly weather here means 'Winter with a vengeance', while Christmas means Summer Time, and that's hot and dry, building to a peak of maybe a month or 6 of absofreakinlutely NO rain and anything up to (or possibly over) 10 days in a row of 110+°C heat!

Just Sayin'

 

[Knizar]

Cold, wet, and REALLY windy here in my part of South Oz!! Winter officially started for us yesterday, the 1st of June, and it hit with a BANG!! Temps barely climbing into the teens (°C), Severe Weather Warnings; Severe Thunderstorm Warnings; Coastal Hazard Warnings; Gale Force Wind Warnings... and in the last 24 hours, we've had pretty much all of them bundled into one pretty wild time!! The rain started fairly early yesterday, initially a drizzle, but it built into fairly torrential rain as the day progressed; then the thunderstorms and lightning hit sometime during the night, woke us all up! I did a bit of walk around then, but all was secure and dry, so went back to bed and listened to it until I fell asleep again. Woke this morning to the wind still howling and screaming outside, but no more thunder and the rain must've just stopped.

When I went out a bit later this morning (it's 10-ish on Tuesday, 2 June here in Oz) just a few hours ago, there was debris of all sorts blown and washed all over the place - even more than usual, now that suburbia has surrounded us!! I saw all the weather warnings when they first went up, so secured everything I thought needed it at/around our place; checked all the gutters, downpipes, and drains etc; and then when I checked early this morning, I think I might've lost just one of the sparkly discs I use as bird scarers hanging on wires around my fruit trees, nothing else (except maybe a few of the last Autumn leaves) got blown away, and there's been no water ingress anywhere it shouldn't have gone - but all my rainwater tanks are now overflowing and all the drains and gutters are sparkly clean! Then when I went out for a ride this morning, there was blown building rubbish, leaf, and garden litter all over the roads, a bunch of tree limbs down, even a few downed trees, a couple of trampolines that'd been blown onto the road from somewhere, and quite surprisingly (at least to me!) a few 'parked cars' skew-whiff in the middle of road that were somehow washed/pushed out of their usual 'parking spots' and out onto the roadway at odd angles, one with a tree limb thru its windscreen!

And now the sun is bravely trying its best to peer thru the heavy and threatening clouds that are still scudding across the sky, driven by the almost gale force winds we've still got howling out there! So for us here in South Oz, Winter is (no longer just) coming - it's bloidy well here with a vengeance!

"Did the weather slow down your rabbit problem?"

 

[Peter Aawen]

"Did the weather slow down your rabbit problem?"

It did, a few months back, when we had floods. That wiped out about 1/3rd of the breeding generation - but rabbit kits grow up and start breeding at about 3 months old, and then they have about 12 kits every month from there on in... So yeah, there was a bit of a dip in the rabbit numbers a few months back, and they became a little less of a problem for maybe 3 months...

That 'period of grace' is now well and truly over, and we've got an even rabbit bigger problem now, cos all the water around means we've got tons of new growth in everything ie. feed for the rabbits, and that means they're breeding like... well, rabbits!! I've got a motion activated 'scarer' on the lawn atm, which makes a variety of different noises whenever it detects anything move onto the small patch of lawn out front. Unless I go out and chase them off every minute or so, it only works for one or two nights at a time, because they rapidly learn that it's only 'noise'! So I removed about 4kg of rabbit pills from the lawn this morning... Just one day's take, and last night was the first night of having the scarer on in five days, so that scared at least some of them away, meaning that's a small load!

Not happy about the rabbits, Jan! Or the bloody possums and mice, but that's a whole 'nuther set of issues!

The 'pest control' was a lot better round here before suburbia surrounded us! But it is nice to have gutters & kerbs on the road, rubbish collection, and occasionally, it's even handy to have nearby neighbours! First world problems, hey?!

 

[Little Blue]

Oh, those crazy rabbits!!!

Well yesterday's rain was excessive but doable. The rivers are full and flooding issues are posted. I am okay
and no problems dealing with water at this time.

Currently cloudy sky at 73°F. Looks like another rainy day for me. Oh, well my
wife always has a 'to-do list' for me.
They never stop, if you know what I mean. But the benefits are good

Today's high will be 84°F with some rain. Kind of off and on most of the day.
Low at 71°F with clouds.
Have yourself a good day and stay Healthy.
Till Next Time my Spyder Forum Friends

 

[mecsw500]

I’ve been to Brisbane a few times in the Spring and Cairns in the Summer.

Brisbane was nice that time of year. I like Brisbane, has a nice vibe.

Cairns however, was interesting. Instead of rabbits, I never saw one, there were ruddy cane toads everywhere.

I was ready to go for a swim off the beach before I was warned off about some kind of jellyfish thing, sharks, and salty crocs. I’m not sure they were having me on, but on the basis is that most kinds of wildlife in Australia seems out to kill you, so I decided discretion was the best part of valor and I used the hotel pool.

The major entertainment seemed to be getting blind drunk in bars, and getting into fights with random people which was interesting to say the least.

Then we had a big storm and had to hunker down in the hotel away from the windows all night, followed by scorching heat and humidity again the next day. The cane toads seemed to enjoy it, as they were out in greater numbers.

Went out to the Great Barrier Reef for a trip of a lifetime. Saw a crocodile zoo. Back home for some kind of beer in bottles referred to as stubbies. I presume that was to stop long necked bottles being used as weapons perhaps?

Anyway, the following week I emigrated to Utah, which couldn’t have been more different on every level to Cairns. For an East London lad, Cairns was an interesting experience.

That was 36 years ago, so I’m sure Cairns has changed a lot since then. I suspect it’s grown, become less isolated, and hence calmed down a bit at night.

Trips to Brisbane over more recent years have been much more, well, normal.

 

[Peter Aawen]

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I was ready to go for a swim off the beach before I was warned off about some kind of jellyfish thing, sharks, and salty crocs. I’m not sure they were having me on, but on the basis is that most kinds of wildlife in Australia seems out to kill you, so I decided discretion was the best part of valor and I used the hotel pool.
.....
That was 36 years ago, so I’m sure Cairns has changed a lot since then. I suspect it’s grown, become less isolated, and hence calmed down a bit at night.

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Yeah, Nah!

They really weren't having you on about the jellyfish, sharks, or saltwater crocs, altho there are some places where you don't hafta worry too much about sharks, cos the salties have eaten 'em all!! But yeah, valor and the hotel pool was certainly a good call! Still is!

The next bit, that comes after 'That was 36 years ago,...' those first coupla points up there in that sentence, yep, they've happened, but now that Cairns is bigger, become more cosmopolitan, got more transients & tourists as well, it's got waaay more places to see and go and drink (and other things! ) until all hours, so if anything, that last bit ^ in that sentence has just got worse!!

Oh, and there's still heaps of bloody cane toads too... probably heaps more of them! Cane toad golf just doesn't seem to make too much of an inroad on their numbers either, and they're arguably as bad as the rabbits in how quickly they breed!! The bleepin' eejits who thought that bringing things like cane toads and rabbits to Oz was a good idea shoulda been shot!

 

[mecsw500]

Well I agree with the last bit. However, Australia has had it's revenge with displaced wild life.

When I lived in England I used to take my then 2 year old son to Whipsnade Zoo, which was an extension of London Zoo out in the Chiltern Hills, north of London.

The problem was they had a storm and the Red Neck Wallabies got out. Now they run wild in the zoo and have escaped out into to the local countryside. If you ride around the Chiltern Hills, which is great motorcycling country, sometimes early in the morning or late at night you'll see some in the fields. You expect to see the occasional deer, but a Wallaby?

In fact, now as far away as the Isle of Man there are wild colonies of Wallabies. How they got there, who knows as I doubt they let them on the ferry? They are also as far away as Cornwall in the south west to Scotland in the north, i.e. the whole length of the country.

I'm not sure how much damage they do, but the British weather seems to suit them quite well and they seem to breed quite prolifically, not perhaps like rabbits or cane toads, but they certainly have self sustaining colonies.

 

[Peter Aawen]

Well I agree with the last bit. However, Australia has had it's revenge with displaced wild life.

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Yeah, tell me about it! Talking about people who shoulda been shot, don't ever mention Brush-tailed Possums without beginning with the term 'those bloody...' if you're in New Zealand or talking to a Kiwi! Back in 1837, some 'not real clever' Aussie thought it'd be great to have a fur trade over in New Zealand so he could have a lucrative back-load on his mail & supply voyages, and took a bunch of breeding age possums over to Southland and released them. That first lot didn't do too well over time, so said Aussie had another go at releasing breeding age possums about 1858 in the same place, and that lot did do well, remarkably well (probably not quite so many possum siblings in the 2nd bunch?! ) - they took off and spread like... well, rabbits!!

So what, you might think, what damage can they do?! Well, Brush-tailed Possums might be 'largely' herbivores, but they're also 'opportunistic omnivores', and they will eat just about anything small enough that might look tasty at the time; birds eggs, small birds (even Kea!), snails, invertebrates, buds, flowers, fruit, berries, roots, shoots, leaves, entire young trees... you name it, if it's relatively small and tender (and well fed possums can grow bloody big - waaay bigger'n the feral cats, so there's a whooole lot of 'small' stuff in NZ for them!) the bleedin' possums will eat it - and there are no natural 'possum predators' in New Zealand!! Then there's the diseases they can help spread, bovine TB included! And the fact that they toss the original native inhabitants out of the best holes & nesting places in the trees, usually by eating the original occupants!!

So even if they are furry, they really aren't all that 'cute', nor are they nice to have running around on an island country that split off from it's original super-continent before that sorta marsupial, both prey and predator types, evolved!! There's no natural predators for possums in NZ, and no feral predators that can compete - so possums are a real problem over there, all because some Aussie thought it'd be nice to have possum fur for the gathering whenever he visited, and before you can say "Here, hold my beer", he took some over there and let them loose - TWICE!

But back here in Oz, returning to the actual topic of the thread, we had a surprisingly nice day yesterday, clear sky, no rain, not too cold, and it woulda been a great day for a longer ride somewhere... Only I cut my usual morning ride short, cos I didn't have anyone else's Spyder in the yard, so I came back and put mine up on the stand to do some well earned maintenance, only to then get called away on Grandad duties for the rest of the day! So while it was great weather for an early Winter ride out into the Barossa or the Riverland, I didn't get to do that, AND I didn't get to do that maintenance, so no ride today either! Mind you, that's not so painful as it could be, cos it's back to Winter here, currently 9°C, feels like 5°, heavily overcast, and the humidity is a solid 100% - yeah, it's bucketing down rain!

Oh well, I guess it's a good day to spend in the shed, outta the rain, warm & dry! And my foot is finally out of it's protective boot and relatively pain free, too! Isn't life such a wonderful thing! Someone really had a great plan!

 

[Deanna777]

Well, here in Vermont, we are finally getting some hot, humid weather. An active and increasingly hot and humid stretch is ahead, Rain arrives Wednesday with numerous afternoon downpours and continues into the overnight hours with thunderstorms. The heat and humidity build rapidly through the end of the week- Friday reaches a scorching temp in the 90's and a long side the muggiest conditions of the year, with the heat index values in the low to mid 90's and record highs with in reach at multiple sites. A cold front clears Friday night before a very warm but more pleasant weekend arrives, with Sunday shaping up as the best day of the stretch , sunny and comfortable. Temps gradually ease into next week as shower chances continue.

Tonight temps in the low 60,& balmy.

Wednesday, temps in the upper 80's, ,lows in the upper 60's.

Thursday, Hot and humid temps in the upper 80's. Lows in the upper 60's.

Friday daytime temps in the low to mid 90's. Night time lows in the low 60's.

Saturday, Very hot, with day time temps in the upper 80's. Saturday night temps in the low 60's.

Sunday and beyond temps in the upper 80's and the humidity backing off from the oppressive levels of late week. Showers return Sunday night( 30%) ahead of a gradual cooling trend that continues into next week. Monday brings partly sunny skies with a high near 78 and scattered showers are possible through the day. a noticeably more comfortable feel as dewpoints drop back into the 50's. That Unsettled but milder pattern continues into Tuesday with highs in the upper 70's and another chance of showers.

The current temp is 76 degrees , partly cloudy.

Deanna