Saturday, August 17, 2013

saturday evening sun... (pm.17.aug.13)>

Saturday's stats:

Low temp: 63.0F (17.2C)
High temp: 69.8F (21.0C)
Rainfall: trace

We're getting some nice bursts of sunshine this evening, at the end of a Saturday that has featured very little rain.  I had some drizzle and a couple of very light rain showers in the upper part of town during the mid-afternoon, but it wasn't enough to register in the rain gauge.  Actually, today has been remarkably similar to last Saturday when we also received only a trace of rainfall.  The temperature was back up around 70F/21C this afternoon, as humidity dipped to near 90% for awhile.

The ebbs and flows during the monsoon season are always interesting to observe.  After a few days of significant rainfall, things have calmed down again during the past couple of days, and especially in the past 18 hours.  There were scattered rain showers all around us today -- in the mountains to the north and east, and across Punjab to the south and west -- but we have found ourselves missing out, for the most part.  

The likelihood of scattered showers and isolated heavy downpours will be in the forecast right through the coming several days, but the overall monsoon intensity is going to be on the weak side.  Already we've seen some slightly lower humidity readings along with those glimpses of sun today -- and there's a good chance we'll continue to see some brighter periods between showers, right into the middle of next week.  It looks like temperatures will be a bit warmer as well...

All the details can be found on the CURRENT FORECAST tab at the top of the page.