Sunday, June 5, 2011

return of the haze... (pm.5.june.11)>

it's mostly cloudy and hazy this evening, with a few thundershowers threatening.  satellite photos show clusters of thundershowers over kashmir, with some isolated weaker activity over the mountains of himachal.  everything is drifting slowly to the east-southeast.  we did have a brief shower early this afternoon... i counted about 17 big fat raindrops, and that was it.  thanks to the sunshine this morning and the warmer airmass nudging in from the southwest, we reached a high of 83.3F (28.5C) today.

the warmer temps at the surface combined with a couple of weak circulations and colder air in the upper atmosphere managed to stir up this scattered shower and thunder action over the western himalayas this afternoon.  we could catch a bit of rain and thunder this evening... but then things should quiet down and clear out by midnight or so.  after that, no major changes in the general weather pattern are expected right through the coming week.  we have a large area of high pressure extending from the persian gulf into northern india, and it will continue to protect us from any significant storm systems.  we'll see a mix of sunshine, haze, afternoon clouds and that risk of an afternoon thundershower for the next couple of days... with even smaller chances of rain by the end of the week.

after about 10-11 days of cooler-than-normal temperatures, we've finally scratched and clawed our way back to where we should be for early june.  it looks like temps will rise a bit more this week, taking us close to the warmest weather of the season so far... unless we can get saved by a healthy thundershower.

SUNDAY NIGHT: a shower/thundershower in the area before midnight... then becoming mostly clear.
low: 21C (70F)

MONDAY: hazy sunshine in the morning, with partly cloudy skies and a slight chance of a thundershower in the afternoon.
high: 29C (84F)

TUESDAY: a mix of sun, haze and clouds.  a PM thundershower possible.
high: 29C (85F)

WEDNESDAY: very warm, with hazy sunshine and a few clouds.
high: 29C (85F)

THURSDAY: partly sunny, hazy and warm.
high: 29C (84F)

FRIDAY: partly sunny, hazy and still warm.
high: 29C (84F)