*Update @ 8:35pm... Still a few flashes of lightning, but those thundershowers to our south appear to be fizzling out. No complaints.
*Update @ 7:42pm... A newly developed batch of thundershowers has been getting organized to our south during the past hour or so, and is creeping northward. If it all holds together, we should have more rainfall to add to our daily total in the next couple of hours.
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Wednesday's stats:
Low temp: 63.7F (17.6C)
High temp: 72.9F (22.7C)
Rainfall since midnight: 1.13" (2.9cm) -- updated at 7:45pm
It's partly sunny this evening, and not raining at the moment. It has been another interesting day, with a variety of weather conditions occurring since sunrise this morning. We've had some great periods of refreshing sunshine, but also a couple of rounds of showers -- including a heavy downpour with an intense lightning strike (or two) during the mid- to late afternoon. More than an inch of rain fell between 3:00 and 5:00pm, with most of that occurring in less than an hour. Humidity did dip to 78% around noon, while my high temp of almost 73F (22.7C) was the warmest I've recorded since the 1st of August.
We've been getting just a taste of a post-monsoon atmosphere, with the increasing amounts of sunshine and slightly lower humidity. However, it's still a tropical air mass we're dealing with, so the heating of the sun only serves to get things bubbling and boiling, leading to eventual shower and thundershower development during the afternoon hours. It's amazing how quickly we can get an inch of rain, despite the fact that it is preceded and immediately followed by sunshine.
An upper-level disturbance from central Asia will sweep by just to our north this weekend. It is going to be close enough to provide us with a west-northwest flow in the mid- and upper levels of the atmosphere by late Saturday or Sunday... ushering in some even drier air for early next week. It's still too early to get excited about the withdrawal of Monsoon 2013 from northern India, but it's getting safe to say that the worst is behind us.
Keep track of the MONSOON 2013 RAINFALL tally along with the CURRENT FORECAST, located on tabs above.
*Update @ 7:42pm... A newly developed batch of thundershowers has been getting organized to our south during the past hour or so, and is creeping northward. If it all holds together, we should have more rainfall to add to our daily total in the next couple of hours.
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Wednesday's stats:
Low temp: 63.7F (17.6C)
High temp: 72.9F (22.7C)
Rainfall since midnight: 1.13" (2.9cm) -- updated at 7:45pm
It's partly sunny this evening, and not raining at the moment. It has been another interesting day, with a variety of weather conditions occurring since sunrise this morning. We've had some great periods of refreshing sunshine, but also a couple of rounds of showers -- including a heavy downpour with an intense lightning strike (or two) during the mid- to late afternoon. More than an inch of rain fell between 3:00 and 5:00pm, with most of that occurring in less than an hour. Humidity did dip to 78% around noon, while my high temp of almost 73F (22.7C) was the warmest I've recorded since the 1st of August.
We've been getting just a taste of a post-monsoon atmosphere, with the increasing amounts of sunshine and slightly lower humidity. However, it's still a tropical air mass we're dealing with, so the heating of the sun only serves to get things bubbling and boiling, leading to eventual shower and thundershower development during the afternoon hours. It's amazing how quickly we can get an inch of rain, despite the fact that it is preceded and immediately followed by sunshine.
An upper-level disturbance from central Asia will sweep by just to our north this weekend. It is going to be close enough to provide us with a west-northwest flow in the mid- and upper levels of the atmosphere by late Saturday or Sunday... ushering in some even drier air for early next week. It's still too early to get excited about the withdrawal of Monsoon 2013 from northern India, but it's getting safe to say that the worst is behind us.
Keep track of the MONSOON 2013 RAINFALL tally along with the CURRENT FORECAST, located on tabs above.
