Saturday, March 15, 2014

return of high clouds... (am.15.mar.14)>

The thicker high clouds have made their return during the past several hours, giving us mostly cloudy skies at sunrise.  My overnight low temp here on Tushita Road just below the mountaineering center has been a very mild 53.6F (12.0C) -- and it's around 56F (13.3C) at the moment.  There has been no rainfall since last report, and the humidity stands at 34%.

The abundant sunshine of the last couple of days was fantastic, but those days are gone now, as a few weak ripples in the upper-level flow are causing some waves of mainly high clouds to ease their way into northwest India.  We should get some periods of sun at times -- both today and tomorrow -- but it doesn't look like we'll be able to come up with the hours and hours of unlimited sunshine that we've recently enjoyed.  This air mass is still a very mild one -- so if we can manage some sunny breaks, we could see temps rising even further than they already have recently.  As I've been mentioning for several days, there will also be an increasing chance of some scattered showers/thunder activity over the mountains this weekend... though I think our chances of getting wet here in McLeod are quite small.

The next significant upper-level disturbance on the weather charts is now over extreme southern Iraq, and will rather rapidly make its way eastward during the coming 48 hours or so.  We should see an increase in the chance of showers and thunderstorms on Monday, with the best chance of rain still looking to be between Monday afternoon and Tuesday evening.  This system should blast through here fairly quickly, however, with clearing and rebounding temperatures in the forecast for Wednesday and Thursday.

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