John Neilson-Gammon Browse All Authors Top 4 quotes by John Neilson-Gammon I can say that so far, we have been having one of our hottest summers on record, may and June have both been very hot. The official numbers for June aren't in but May tied for the second-warmest May on record. John Neilson-Gammon As a state climatologist, I've been telling people that this was a good chance of being the second-hottest summer on record for Texas, just given how dry things were going into it, plus, a couple of degrees of help from climate change. John Neilson-Gammon Typically, when we have widespread drought across the state, we end up with fairly high summer temperatures, especially maximum temperatures, because there's less moisture for evaporation. John Neilson-Gammon My guess for why temperatures managed to get so hot back then was there was much less surface water with almost no reservoirs in the state of Texas and relatively little irrigation going on. John Neilson-Gammon
