**HAPPY INDIAN INDEPENDENCE DAY!**
*Update @ 8:40am... The rain gauge keeps ticking. I've registered a fresh 0.18" (5mm) in the past hour and a half... the showers have been in the light to moderate category for the most part, but don't be too surprised if we get some heavier stuff developing as the day wears on.
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I recorded another 0.60" (1.5cm) of rain since about 9:00pm last night, which brings the total since yesterday (Wed) afternoon up to 1.39" (3.5cm). The total for the month of August is now pretty close to 21" (53.3cm) which is impressive, considering that we've got a little more than half the month left to go.
It's mostly cloudy at sunrise this morning. The temperature is 64F (17.8C), with humidity staying close to 100%.
I was thinking we might get some semblance of a break in the action today into Friday, but I'm not so confident about that anymore. Winds in the lower-levels are pulling in moisture from the southeast, while the flow in the mid- and upper-levels turns slightly to the south and southwest. That's a favorable wind profile for rain showers to continue to develop here along the slopes of the Dhauladhars, and even the computer models have kept at least moderate 24-hour rainfall totals in the forecast for our area, right through the weekend.
As we've been talking about over and over -- the ground is saturated, so almost all of the rain that comes down will be running downhill quickly via gullies and nullahs, across roads, etc. Road conditions are dynamic -- changing all the time -- so just be careful and on alert as you travel around. Wish I had a traffic helicopter, but that's not in the budget.
The CURRENT FORECAST on the top of the page has the specific wx details for the coming five days.
*Update @ 8:40am... The rain gauge keeps ticking. I've registered a fresh 0.18" (5mm) in the past hour and a half... the showers have been in the light to moderate category for the most part, but don't be too surprised if we get some heavier stuff developing as the day wears on.
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I recorded another 0.60" (1.5cm) of rain since about 9:00pm last night, which brings the total since yesterday (Wed) afternoon up to 1.39" (3.5cm). The total for the month of August is now pretty close to 21" (53.3cm) which is impressive, considering that we've got a little more than half the month left to go.
It's mostly cloudy at sunrise this morning. The temperature is 64F (17.8C), with humidity staying close to 100%.
I was thinking we might get some semblance of a break in the action today into Friday, but I'm not so confident about that anymore. Winds in the lower-levels are pulling in moisture from the southeast, while the flow in the mid- and upper-levels turns slightly to the south and southwest. That's a favorable wind profile for rain showers to continue to develop here along the slopes of the Dhauladhars, and even the computer models have kept at least moderate 24-hour rainfall totals in the forecast for our area, right through the weekend.
As we've been talking about over and over -- the ground is saturated, so almost all of the rain that comes down will be running downhill quickly via gullies and nullahs, across roads, etc. Road conditions are dynamic -- changing all the time -- so just be careful and on alert as you travel around. Wish I had a traffic helicopter, but that's not in the budget.
The CURRENT FORECAST on the top of the page has the specific wx details for the coming five days.
