June 2026 Newsletter
A Word from our President
by – Ron McEwen-Cold Control
Looks like summer is finally here this week! Then back to mid-70’s next week! I hope everyone is keeping busy.
This will be my LAST newsletter as KCCA President! Tom Tallon will take over July 1st.
May general meeting was very informative. Alan from Solaris talked about products to keep coils and drain lines clean.
June we have Gerald Burkhart from Mondale & Associates coming to talk about Conex Banninger B MaxiPro fittings, thank you WSM for brining this speaker.
We will not have a general meeting in July as we are all usually too busy.
The annual planning meeting will be on Tuesday August 18th at the Scotch and Sirloin. It will be a free lunch to those that attend.
We are discontinuing the $100 drawing at general meetings because ONLY Cold Control techs win!
Membership renewals will go out in the next couple of weeks, so make sure you renew and take advantage of the discounted lunches and continuing ed classes this fall.
We are still shooting for our first fall class on Tuesday October 13th, if it fills up and we have enough interest for another we will Schedule it in November.
Go to KCCAKS.com to get registered for these meetings. The cost is $20 for members and $30 for non-members.
Ron McEwen-Cold Control Refrigeration Inc
Please feel free to contact me with any questions,
Ronm@coldcontrolks.com or Office 316-942-9650
EDUCATION
MABCD Newsletter
Click here to get the latest updates on Mechanical, Electrical and Plumbing changes to code.
2025/2026 Meetings
Congratulations to Nathan Eckert & Alexander Reed from Kelley & Dawson Services for applying for the KCCA Tool Scholarships and both were awarded.
April’s General Meeting
Thank you Pat Thomas from CFM for coming to speak aboutthe intelliGen control platform for refrigeration and also the A2L changes. Pat had a lot of great information and KCCA appreciates you coming to speak. Congratulations to Ryan Robertson from WSM for winning $100 cash!
Hope to see you @ future meetings!! All general meetings are held on the 3rd Tuesday, except no meeting in July or December.
Summer 2026 Forecast Signals Busy Stretch for HVAC Contractors
MATT JACHMAN
El Nino system in the Pacific will bring the heat to about three-quarters of states
HVAC contractors, installers, and repair technicians in most parts of the country should gear up for a busy summer if recent weather reports are any indication.
An El Nino, a warming of the surface waters in a specific part of the Pacific Ocean, will strengthen and impact the U.S. over the next few months, bringing above-normal summer temperatures to most states, according to major forecasting organizations.
“It’s definitely going to be warmer than normal in most of the country. Certainly there are exceptions,” said Sarah Perreault, managing editor of The Old Farmer’s Almanac, which issued its summer 2026 report last month. “Systems are going to overheat. You’re going to use much more air conditioning than you would.”
The weather will matter more than the economy, according to the latest Data Driven Newsletter from Heating, Air-conditioning & Refrigeration Distributors International (HARDI).
“Everyone in this industry knows the hotter it is, the more you sell,” the post says, in part.
With the use of a bar graph, the post notes that the number of cooling days in HARDI’s western region in 2025, over a five-month period from April through September, was below normal for each of those months except August.
“This region with below normal cooling degree days was the laggard among our seven regions for sales growth last year,” HARDI’s post says. “What we really care about is this year.”
WARM WEATHER AHEAD
After a transition from a La Nina — a cooling of the waters in the central and eastern tropical Pacific near the Equator — to more neutral conditions, completed in March, an El Nino, or warming trend, will take hold in the same region, said Anthony Artusa, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service’s Climate Prediction Center.
“What happens there has a major influence on what happens in the U.S. downstream” and in much of the world, Artusa said.
“We expect the El Nino to become stronger and more impactful later in the summer and on into the fall,” and to last into the winter, Artusa added.
The El Nino will mean warm summer weather in about three-quarters of the states, Artusa said, with the highest likelihood for hotter-than-normal temperatures predicted for the northern and central intermountain West and the Rocky Mountain area. That’s a region from Idaho and the western two-thirds of Montana southeasterly to parts of Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas, and from parts of Washington, Oregon, and California eastward through most of Colorado and into a corner of western Nebraska.
Most other states — in the West, Pacific Northwest, Plains, Mid-South and Deep South, the Appalachian region, and along the Atlantic coast from Florida to Maine — are also likely to see above-normal temperatures, though that probability is less than in the Rockies and intermountain area, according to the National Weather Service.
AccuWeather Inc. predicts that the number of 90°F-plus days in several major cities, including Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Portland, and Phoenix, will be near or above the 15-year average. In Portland, between 22 and 30 days of 90°-plus temperatures are forecast; the average is 20 days. In Phoenix, up to 190 days of 90°F-plus temps are forecast; the average is 180.
An area of the country centered in the northern Midwest — Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Indiana, and Michigan, most of Illinois, western Ohio, plus parts of the Dakotas, part of Missouri, and a sliver of northern Kentucky — could escape the highest temperatures, as data indicate that temperatures there are just as likely to be below normal as they are to be above normal, according to the weather service.
Temperatures in Hawaii are likely to be above normal, as are temperatures in Alaska, except for the northern part of that state, where above- or below-normal temperatures have equal chances, the weather service says.
PRECIPITATION OUTLOOK
El Nino will also influence precipitation patterns this summer.
An area along the Atlantic that includes most of Delaware and Maryland southward through Virginia, the Carolinas, and part of Georgia, plus most of West Virginia and the eastern parts of Kentucky and Tennessee, is likely to see above-normal rainfall, according to the weather service, though the Atlantic hurricane season is expected to be mild, Artusa said.
Most of Arizona, western New Mexico, southeastern Utah, and far southwestern Colorado are also likely to see above-normal rainfall.
In the northwest, in a region that includes all of Washington state plus northern Oregon and northern Idaho, signs point toward drier-than-normal conditions, according to the weather service. In a larger swath east of the Rockies, from southern South Dakota through most of Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, and much of Texas, chances of below-normal precipitation are high.
In most of the rest of the country, there are equal chances of above- or below-normal rainfall.
AccuWeather is looking at rainfall through a different lens, warning of the possibility of flash flooding in the Texas hill country as well as in other regions.
“Flash flood events are expected in parts of the Plains, Mississippi Valley, and Ohio Valley on a higher frequency this summer,” said long-range meteorologist Paul Pastelok in Accu- Weather’s summer forecast.
Here’s a temperature and precipitation outlook roundup for June, July, and August for all 50 states, based on the National Weather Service forecast:
• Alaska: High chances of above-normal temperatures, except at the top of the state, where above- or below-normal temperatures have equal chances. Chances higher for above-normal precipitation in the western part of the state; equal chances of above- or below-normal precipitation in northeastern Alaska and the Panhandle.
• Pacific Northwest (Washington, Oregon): Probability of above-normal temperatures throughout, with the highest likelihood in the eastern two-thirds of both. Below-normal rainfall likely for all of Washington and northern Oregon; equal chances of above- or below-normal rainfall in the rest of Oregon.
• California: Probability of above-normal temperatures across the Golden State, and with chances higher in an eastern sliver. Equal chances of above- or below-normal rainfall for nearly the entire state.
• Mountain West (Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Nevada, Utah, Colorado): Probability of above-normal temperatures across all states, with the highest likelihood throughout Idaho, most of Nevada, Utah, Wyoming, and Colorado, and the western two-thirds of Montana. Chances high for below-normal rainfall in northern Idaho and western Montana. Equal chances of above- or below-normal rainfall in most of the rest of the region; southeastern Utah and a corner of southwestern Colorado are more likely to see above-normal rain levels, and a small part of eastern Colorado is in a region where drier weather is expected.
• Southwest (Arizona, New Mexico, Texas): Above-normal temperatures expected, with the highest likelihood seen in northern parts of Arizona and New Mexico and a swath of north-central Texas. Chances high for above-normal rainfall in much of Arizona and western New Mexico. Equal chances of aboveor below-normal rainfall in far western and far eastern Texas; the probability is high for most of the rest of the state to be drier.
• High Plains (the Dakotas, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma): Above-normal temperatures likely in the western Dakotas, Kansas, Oklahoma, and most of Nebraska. Equal chances of below- and above-normal temperatures in the eastern Dakotas and the northeastern corner of Nebraska. Equal chances of above- or below-normal rainfall in North Dakota and most of southern South Dakota; nearly all of Nebraska, Kansas, and Oklahoma are part of a region where the probability of lower-than-normal rainfall is elevated.
• Upper Midwest (Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri): Equal chances of above- or below-normal temperatures, except in southern and western Missouri, where warmer temperatures are more likely. Equal chances of above- or below-normal rainfall in all three states, but for a tiny sliver of western Iowa next to Nebraska, which is more likely to be drier.
• Great Lakes (Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio): Equal chances of above- or below-normal temperatures, except for the southernmost tip of Illinois and eastern Ohio, where above-normal temperatures are more likely. Equal chances of above- or below-normal rainfall throughout the region, but for a small part of Ohio near West Virginia, where chances of above-normal rainfall are higher.
• South (Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, Carolinas): Above-normal temperatures likely, with the highest probability in Louisiana and parts of Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, and the Florida Panhandle. Equal chances of above- or below-normal rainfall in Arkansas, Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama, Florida, the western two-thirds of Tennessee, and southern and northwestern Georgia. Above-normal rainfall more likely in eastern Tennessee, most of northern and eastern Georgia, and the Carolinas.
• Kentucky and West Virginia: Above-normal temperatures expected, except for parts of northern Kentucky, where equal chances of above- or below-normal temperatures are seen. Chances of above-normal rainfall highest in eastern Kentucky and most of West Virginia; equal chances of above- or below-normal rainfall in far northern West Virginia and the western two-thirds of Kentucky.
• Mid-Atlantic (Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, Washington, D.C.): Higher-than-normal temperatures expected throughout. Elevated chances of above-normal precipitation in Virginia, Washington, D.C., and most of Maryland and Delaware. Equal chances of above- or below-normal precipitation in Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, and the northern parts of Maryland and Delaware.
• New England (Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut): Elevated chances of higher-than-normal temperatures throughout. Equal chances of above- or below-normal rainfall throughout.
• Hawaii: Warmer-than-normal temperatures, with a tendency toward above-normal rainfall.
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