Friday's stats:
Low temp: 62.8F (17.1C)
High temp: 67.5F (19.7C)
Rainfall since midnight: 0.30" (8mm) -- updated at 845pm
Steady light rain is falling as we approach sunset this evening, after a day that has been less water-logged than the last couple of days. Although we've had several periods of drizzle and very light rain, we had plenty of breaks in between, and it was much more pleasant to be out and about. Clouds still dominated the day, with only a brief glimpse of sun early this morning -- and humidity stayed above 90%.
Up til now, most of the shower development has been hanging a little further to our south and west. It's turned out that upper-level winds were too light to force all of the lurking moisture up against the mountains to get some decent rainfall going. But our air mass will remain near the saturation point right through the weekend, so it won't take too much to come up with a period or two of significant rainfall during the next 36-48 hours.
I'm still scouring the weather maps looking for something that would indicate a respite that might allow a moderate drop in humidity and maybe a random hour or two of sunshine. There is going to be a fairly strong push of drier air working its way into western and central Rajasthan early next week, but it's looking unlikely that it will ever make its way into Himachal Pradesh, or even Punjab for that matter. I guess it's just wishful thinking that we could get much of a break this early anyway...
Check the CURRENT FORECAST and the running total on MONSOON 2013 RAINFALL on the tabs above.
Low temp: 62.8F (17.1C)
High temp: 67.5F (19.7C)
Rainfall since midnight: 0.30" (8mm) -- updated at 845pm
Steady light rain is falling as we approach sunset this evening, after a day that has been less water-logged than the last couple of days. Although we've had several periods of drizzle and very light rain, we had plenty of breaks in between, and it was much more pleasant to be out and about. Clouds still dominated the day, with only a brief glimpse of sun early this morning -- and humidity stayed above 90%.
Up til now, most of the shower development has been hanging a little further to our south and west. It's turned out that upper-level winds were too light to force all of the lurking moisture up against the mountains to get some decent rainfall going. But our air mass will remain near the saturation point right through the weekend, so it won't take too much to come up with a period or two of significant rainfall during the next 36-48 hours.
I'm still scouring the weather maps looking for something that would indicate a respite that might allow a moderate drop in humidity and maybe a random hour or two of sunshine. There is going to be a fairly strong push of drier air working its way into western and central Rajasthan early next week, but it's looking unlikely that it will ever make its way into Himachal Pradesh, or even Punjab for that matter. I guess it's just wishful thinking that we could get much of a break this early anyway...
Check the CURRENT FORECAST and the running total on MONSOON 2013 RAINFALL on the tabs above.
