Monday, July 29, 2013

moisture immersion... (am.29.jul.13)>

Thundershowers were roaming the area before dawn this morning, but at my particular location I only came up with 0.07" (2mm) in the rain gauge.  I have a feeling others may have had considerably more than that.  Humidity is still very close to 100% at sunrise, under partly cloudy skies with patchy fog... and the temperature is 68F (20C).

It's going to be very interesting to see how things evolve during these final few days of July.  Massive amounts of tropical moisture are flowing in, and as it interacts with the mountains there will be development of numerous periods of rain.  What remains to be seen is how heavy the rain will be, and how widespread it will be.  Computer model data is still pointing to the mid-week period (Tuesday through Thursday) for the greatest heavy rain potential -- so we'll see how much of what is coming gets credited to July, and how much to August.

Even during non-rainy periods, the humidity doesn't look like it will drop much at all, keeping us in the fog for the vast majority of the time.  It's very likely that we'll see much less of the sun this week than last -- in fact, it might be difficult to get even just a few faint glimpses.

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