Monday's stats:
Low temp: 52.3F (11.3C)
High temp: 65.9F (18.8C)
Rainfall: trace
There are some clouds lingering along the mountain slopes at sunset this evening, otherwise skies are rapidly clearing. Once again we enjoyed lots of bright sunshine during the morning hours, but there was a fairly aggressive build-up of cumulus clouds over the mountains by mid-day, which led to some isolated showers and even some thunder up there during the mid- to late afternoon. I witnessed a couple of sprinkles and heard a rumble of two of thunder around 5:20pm on TIPA Road just before it started to clear out again. This final day of March was the third-warmest of the month at my location in the upper part of town.
It looks like we have one more day of relatively quiet weather as April arrives. There should be a good amount of sunshine again tomorrow, with again the threat of some cloud/isolated shower development over the mountains -- along with pleasantly mild temps. An upper-level disturbance currently centered over northwestern Iran will be quickly making its way toward northern India however, and will bring us an increasing chance of a couple of periods of showers and thundershowers between Wednesday afternoon and mid-day Thursday. It's starting to look like the best chance of a round of significant rainfall will occur on Wednesday night into early Thursday morning. Temperatures will temporarily cool off in response.
By late Thursday a major surge of warmer air throughout all layers of the atmosphere will push in from the southwest. We should have a period of generally stable conditions lasting through Saturday, but then the risk of some showers and thunderstorms will increase yet again by mid-day Sunday into Monday. It is clear that our overall weather pattern is still not shifting into a long-term drier mode...
CURRENT FORECAST info is available on the tab above.
Low temp: 52.3F (11.3C)
High temp: 65.9F (18.8C)
Rainfall: trace
There are some clouds lingering along the mountain slopes at sunset this evening, otherwise skies are rapidly clearing. Once again we enjoyed lots of bright sunshine during the morning hours, but there was a fairly aggressive build-up of cumulus clouds over the mountains by mid-day, which led to some isolated showers and even some thunder up there during the mid- to late afternoon. I witnessed a couple of sprinkles and heard a rumble of two of thunder around 5:20pm on TIPA Road just before it started to clear out again. This final day of March was the third-warmest of the month at my location in the upper part of town.
It looks like we have one more day of relatively quiet weather as April arrives. There should be a good amount of sunshine again tomorrow, with again the threat of some cloud/isolated shower development over the mountains -- along with pleasantly mild temps. An upper-level disturbance currently centered over northwestern Iran will be quickly making its way toward northern India however, and will bring us an increasing chance of a couple of periods of showers and thundershowers between Wednesday afternoon and mid-day Thursday. It's starting to look like the best chance of a round of significant rainfall will occur on Wednesday night into early Thursday morning. Temperatures will temporarily cool off in response.
By late Thursday a major surge of warmer air throughout all layers of the atmosphere will push in from the southwest. We should have a period of generally stable conditions lasting through Saturday, but then the risk of some showers and thunderstorms will increase yet again by mid-day Sunday into Monday. It is clear that our overall weather pattern is still not shifting into a long-term drier mode...
CURRENT FORECAST info is available on the tab above.
