*Update @ 7:39am... Most of us are getting a glorious blast of Sunday morning sunshine, as the clouds temporarily disperse. Wishing this could last for a few hours, but I think all the sun is going to do is start to draw lots of moisture from the ground which will condense into fog and clouds shortly.
*Update @ 7:08am... That rain shower about a half hour ago turned out to be brief, but it deposited a quick 0.11" (3mm) here. There are some nice breaks in the overcast at the moment...
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The night was absolutely quiet and uneventful, but it's raining again this morning at my location on Tushita Road, as of about 6:15am. It's just starting to register in the rain gauge, so I'll post amounts later in the morning. It's currently 64.5F (18.1C), and humidity is very close to 100%.
Rainfall yesterday morning ranged from around 3" (7.5cm) in Dharamkot, to around 6" (15cm) further downhill in and around the immediate Dharamsala area. Since that time, there hasn't been a lot going on, but we'll see what happens with the rain that has been developing in the past hour. Conditions are still favorable for some significant rainfall today, but we'll likely get some hours of dry weather as well.
It looks like the atmosphere is going to attempt to dry out just a bit between Monday and Wednesday. That doesn't mean there will be no rainfall at all, it just means that the showers will be more of the scattered, hit-and-miss variety, as we experienced between Wednesday and Friday of last week. There is no weather feature on the horizon that is going to displace this tropical air mass, so any breaks and/or drops in humidity will be quite short-lived. That's just the way life is in late July, and the way it will stay for the next 5-6 weeks or longer. Historical records show that the heaviest rainfall of the entire monsoon season and year occurs between roughly July 20th and August 20th... so according to the law of averages, we're just now getting into the "meat" of the season.
Check the tabs above for your CURRENT FORECAST, along with the running total on MONSOON 2013 RAINFALL.
*Update @ 7:08am... That rain shower about a half hour ago turned out to be brief, but it deposited a quick 0.11" (3mm) here. There are some nice breaks in the overcast at the moment...
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The night was absolutely quiet and uneventful, but it's raining again this morning at my location on Tushita Road, as of about 6:15am. It's just starting to register in the rain gauge, so I'll post amounts later in the morning. It's currently 64.5F (18.1C), and humidity is very close to 100%.
Rainfall yesterday morning ranged from around 3" (7.5cm) in Dharamkot, to around 6" (15cm) further downhill in and around the immediate Dharamsala area. Since that time, there hasn't been a lot going on, but we'll see what happens with the rain that has been developing in the past hour. Conditions are still favorable for some significant rainfall today, but we'll likely get some hours of dry weather as well.
It looks like the atmosphere is going to attempt to dry out just a bit between Monday and Wednesday. That doesn't mean there will be no rainfall at all, it just means that the showers will be more of the scattered, hit-and-miss variety, as we experienced between Wednesday and Friday of last week. There is no weather feature on the horizon that is going to displace this tropical air mass, so any breaks and/or drops in humidity will be quite short-lived. That's just the way life is in late July, and the way it will stay for the next 5-6 weeks or longer. Historical records show that the heaviest rainfall of the entire monsoon season and year occurs between roughly July 20th and August 20th... so according to the law of averages, we're just now getting into the "meat" of the season.
Check the tabs above for your CURRENT FORECAST, along with the running total on MONSOON 2013 RAINFALL.
