*Update @ 8:03pm... New rain showers since about 6:30pm have boosted today's rainfall total to 0.18" (5mm). The temperature is near the coldest of the day -- hovering around 41F (5C).
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Friday's stats:
Low temp: 40.1F (4.5C) -- at 7:00pm*
High temp: 48.7F (9.3C)
Precipitation: 0.18" (5mm)*
*updated
We are socked in with clouds this evening, and have been since the late morning, for the most part. The rain has been less than impressive today so far -- with a period of drizzle, sprinkles and very light rain showers during the early afternoon hours barely able to register a measurement in my rain gauge. Temperatures today were much more like what we would expect in late January, as opposed to the final day of February.
The main weather features in play recently are changing only slowly, as a large area of low pressure in the upper atmosphere continues to spin in a counter-clockwise manner across Afghanistan, Pakistan and northern India. The center of this system is still to our south and west, and will shift into northern India tomorrow (Sat). There is a good amount of moisture lying in wait, so as spokes of energy rotate around this system, there will continue to be some waves of shower development occurring, along with a chance of some thunder at times as well. We haven't really seen much precipitation of any consequence since yesterday afternoon, but that doesn't mean much. Continue to be on guard for rainy weather to reappear sometime between tonight and Sunday, before this system finally starts exiting to the east.
Climatologically, the chance of accumulating snowfall is very small in McLeod Ganj proper by the 1st of March -- but this is such a cold system, with even colder air aloft, that we have to consider the possibility of frozen forms of precipitation in our area, despite the late date.
A period of brighter weather may occur between mid-day Sunday and late Monday, but confidence on that is quite low, since we've got yet another disturbance expected to make its way toward us by Monday night and Tuesday. But we've got enough to worry about before any of that takes tangible form...
CURRENT FORECAST details can be found on the tab above.
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Friday's stats:
Low temp: 40.1F (4.5C) -- at 7:00pm*
High temp: 48.7F (9.3C)
Precipitation: 0.18" (5mm)*
*updated
We are socked in with clouds this evening, and have been since the late morning, for the most part. The rain has been less than impressive today so far -- with a period of drizzle, sprinkles and very light rain showers during the early afternoon hours barely able to register a measurement in my rain gauge. Temperatures today were much more like what we would expect in late January, as opposed to the final day of February.
The main weather features in play recently are changing only slowly, as a large area of low pressure in the upper atmosphere continues to spin in a counter-clockwise manner across Afghanistan, Pakistan and northern India. The center of this system is still to our south and west, and will shift into northern India tomorrow (Sat). There is a good amount of moisture lying in wait, so as spokes of energy rotate around this system, there will continue to be some waves of shower development occurring, along with a chance of some thunder at times as well. We haven't really seen much precipitation of any consequence since yesterday afternoon, but that doesn't mean much. Continue to be on guard for rainy weather to reappear sometime between tonight and Sunday, before this system finally starts exiting to the east.
Climatologically, the chance of accumulating snowfall is very small in McLeod Ganj proper by the 1st of March -- but this is such a cold system, with even colder air aloft, that we have to consider the possibility of frozen forms of precipitation in our area, despite the late date.
A period of brighter weather may occur between mid-day Sunday and late Monday, but confidence on that is quite low, since we've got yet another disturbance expected to make its way toward us by Monday night and Tuesday. But we've got enough to worry about before any of that takes tangible form...
CURRENT FORECAST details can be found on the tab above.
