Saturday, August 17, 2013

stagnancy... (am.17.aug.13)>

There are some glimpses of sunshine through the clouds and patchy fog early on this Saturday morning, after a quiet night.  I ended up with just 0.32" (8mm) of rain for yesterday's total by the time the showers fizzled out late last evening, so there wasn't very much more since the last report.  Humidity remains near 100%, and the temperature is 64F (17.8C) to start the day.

The weather pattern is fairly dead across northern India -- with only very light flow happening throughout all layers of the atmosphere.  It's the tropical soup situation again, with lots of moisture in place, and none of it really going anywhere.  As the sun works on this air mass from above, there will be scattered rain showers developing again today, and it looks like the kind of situation where some of us could get some decent rainfall amounts, while others of us get very little.

A surge of drier air will be trying to push its way into western India during the early part of next week, which may chase monsoon moisture out of Rajasthan and parts of Gujarat for a couple of days.  But -- it looks like that moisture will surge right back in after only a short break.  I doubt whether we'll get much of a taste of drier conditions here, but I'm still hopeful about a slight drop in humidity and maybe a few glimpses of sun sometime between Monday and Wednesday.

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