Saturday's stats:
Low temp: 53.6F (12.0C)
High temp: 62.2F (16.8C)
Rainfall: none
The sky at sunset this evening looks very similar to the way it looked at sunrise this morning, with a lot of high cloudiness across the area. We did get some sunshine poking through at times today, but those high clouds were definitely the dominant feature -- and that gave us a high temp just slightly lower than yesterday's. Still, it goes down in the books as the second-warmest day of 2014.
A west-southwesterly flow in the upper-atmosphere on the west side of a big ridge of high pressure over northern India has been channeling waves of high clouds into Punjab, Himachal and Kashmir today, but it seems that any precipitation has been confined to the highest elevations well to our north. Relatively warm air is solidly anchored throughout all layers of the atmosphere, and that is keeping things too stable for shower/thundershower development anywhere near us. Tomorrow (Sunday) we should see more of this back and forth between high clouds and sun, with temperatures perhaps a degree or two warmer than today. Rain chances will remain only slight.
The next major item of interest on the weather charts is an upper-level disturbance which is right on top of Kuwait this evening. It will move rather rapidly east-northeastward during the next couple of days -- ending up over central Pakistan by Tuesday morning. Our rain and thunderstorm chances will be on the increase during the day on Monday, then finally diminish early on Wednesday. This doesn't look like an extremely heavy precipitation event, but it will need to be monitored carefully. We've already had way more than enough rain during Feb/March, so it wouldn't hurt us at all if this one failed to deliver.
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