Tuesday's stats:
Low temp: 67.3F (19.6C)
High temp: 73.9F (23.3C)
24 hour rainfall: 0.16" (4mm)
The day is ending as it began -- with thick fog. In between, we've had a little of everything; from peeks of sun, to patchy fog, to a persistent bank of mid-level clouds, to thunder and some short-lived showers. Most of the rainfall during the past 24 hours occurred during the depths of the overnight hours into the early morning, with not much at all since then. Humidity dropped to around 85% during the middle of the day, but has been close to 100% at the start and end.
I'm precariously close to losing the plot with this recent weather pattern. We've not had nearly the amount of rain I would have expected by now, and it seems that computer models have been unhelpful, continuing to over-forecast rainfall amounts for our area -- at least as far as the immediate McLeod area is concerned. We're now down to about 30 hours left for the month of July, and unless there are some drastic changes very soon, we're going to end the month considerably below normal. That's not the case further downhill, but it's the reality this season here at our elevation.
Anyway, the data continues to point to fairly widespread moderate to heavy rain showers for the remainder of the week, and perhaps into early next week as well. Based on our recent track-record, I guess all we can do is play it hour-by-hour and see what might happen to develop. We are way overdue for some persistent heavy rains, after only spotty and scattered showers during the past several days.
The CURRENT FORECAST and the MONSOON 2013 RAINFALL tally can be found on the tabs above...
Low temp: 67.3F (19.6C)
High temp: 73.9F (23.3C)
24 hour rainfall: 0.16" (4mm)
The day is ending as it began -- with thick fog. In between, we've had a little of everything; from peeks of sun, to patchy fog, to a persistent bank of mid-level clouds, to thunder and some short-lived showers. Most of the rainfall during the past 24 hours occurred during the depths of the overnight hours into the early morning, with not much at all since then. Humidity dropped to around 85% during the middle of the day, but has been close to 100% at the start and end.
I'm precariously close to losing the plot with this recent weather pattern. We've not had nearly the amount of rain I would have expected by now, and it seems that computer models have been unhelpful, continuing to over-forecast rainfall amounts for our area -- at least as far as the immediate McLeod area is concerned. We're now down to about 30 hours left for the month of July, and unless there are some drastic changes very soon, we're going to end the month considerably below normal. That's not the case further downhill, but it's the reality this season here at our elevation.
Anyway, the data continues to point to fairly widespread moderate to heavy rain showers for the remainder of the week, and perhaps into early next week as well. Based on our recent track-record, I guess all we can do is play it hour-by-hour and see what might happen to develop. We are way overdue for some persistent heavy rains, after only spotty and scattered showers during the past several days.
The CURRENT FORECAST and the MONSOON 2013 RAINFALL tally can be found on the tabs above...
