Monday, May 6, 2013

not much drama... (pm.06.may.13)>

Monday's stats:

Early morning low temp: 57.0F (13.9C)
Afternoon high temp: 78.8F (26.0C)
Rainfall: 0.08" (2mm) -- before 3:00am

Skies are partly cloudy before sunset this evening, with breezy conditions at the moment and a random sprinkle of rain here and there during the past hour.  We've had a nearly equal split between clouds and sun today, with just a couple of raindrops during the afternoon which didn't even come close to wetting the ground.  Temperatures were very close to normal for the first week of May.

The upper-level disturbance determining our weather conditions since early Sunday morning continues to lessen its influence on us, but was still able to stir up some widely scattered showers and thundershowers from Kashmir into extreme western Nepal today.  With its departure will come a building ridge of high pressure which will hang around through Thursday, providing generally stable conditions which will include a greater percentage of sunshine along with even warmer temperatures.  There will still be a risk of a bit of PM thundershower development over the mountains, but it shouldn't have much of an effect on us.

There will be another turn to more unsettled weather starting on Friday, and continuing through most of the weekend.  Although there's still not a great deal of moisture available, we'll see an increasing chance of a few showers and thundershowers, along with slightly cooler temps for at least a couple of days.

Check the CURRENT FORECAST details on the tab above.