The sun has popped out again, and things are settling down after a very active few hours late this afternoon. Thundershowers began developing just after 3:00pm, and have brought occasional rain and very strong and gusty winds to the area. There was also a magnificent double rainbow in the eastern sky just before 6:00pm. Here on Tushita Road below the Mountaineering Center I received 0.19" (5mm) of rain... the most I've recorded in a single day in exactly one month ( since the 5th of May). My high temp reached 85.1F (29.5C) before the thundershowers moved in.
The cooler air which has been gradually seeping in in the upper-levels of the atmosphere continues to do battle with the warmer air at the surface. This afternoon, that instability finally reached the threshold necessary to get some serious thundershowers going... not only here, but across much of northern Pakistan into north India. A broad but relatively weak upper-level disturbance will remain over northwest India for the next few days, providing us with daily opportunities for a round or two of showers and thunderstorms... mainly during the afternoon and evening hours. By the weekend, some stability may return, diminishing rain chances.
After our recent heatwave, we've finally cooled down closer to "normal" for early June. Sunny periods will keep us seasonably warm for the remainder of the week, but thanks to random thundershowers, we'll get some natural A/C breaks as well...
The cooler air which has been gradually seeping in in the upper-levels of the atmosphere continues to do battle with the warmer air at the surface. This afternoon, that instability finally reached the threshold necessary to get some serious thundershowers going... not only here, but across much of northern Pakistan into north India. A broad but relatively weak upper-level disturbance will remain over northwest India for the next few days, providing us with daily opportunities for a round or two of showers and thunderstorms... mainly during the afternoon and evening hours. By the weekend, some stability may return, diminishing rain chances.
After our recent heatwave, we've finally cooled down closer to "normal" for early June. Sunny periods will keep us seasonably warm for the remainder of the week, but thanks to random thundershowers, we'll get some natural A/C breaks as well...
TUESDAY NIGHT:
partly to mostly cloudy. still a risk of a shower or a thundershower or two in the area.
low: 21C (69F)
WEDNESDAY:
partly cloudy skies. good chance of a couple of thundershowers... mainly during the PM.
high: 29C (84F)
WEDNESDAY NIGHT:
chance of a thundershower, otherwise partly cloudy.
low: 21C (69F)
THURSDAY:
a mix of clouds and sun. a round or two of thundershowers likely.
high: 29C (84F)
FRIDAY:
partly cloudy. chance of a thundershower or two.
morning low: 21C (70F)
daytime high: 29C (85F)
SATURDAY:
sunny to partly cloudy. an isolated PM thundershower?
morning low: 21C (70F)
daytime high: 29C (85F)
SUNDAY:
sunshine and a few clouds. PM mountain thunder possible.
morning low: 22C (71F)
daytime high: 30C (86F)
