*Update @ 8:17pm... The light rain shower just concluded delivered another 0.06" (1+mm) to my rain gauge, bringing the total rain for the day to 0.09" (2mm). Not the kind of rainfall amounts to get all worked up about... but this IS April.
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Wednesday's stats:
Low temp: 52.2F (11.2C)
High temp: 64.0F (17.8C)
Rainfall: 0.09" (2mm) -- updated @ 817pm
It's mostly cloudy this evening, with a rather large area of showers with some thunder hovering just to our west-northwest. The best weather of the day occurred during the early morning hours, when we had a couple of hours of dim sunshine, and temperatures which nudged 64F (nearly 18C). Clouds thickened up thereafter, though, leading to a few sprinkles after 11am, and then a short period of rain showers between 1:30 and 2:00pm. The sun tried desperately to break through again during the mid-afternoon, but didn't do a very good job of it. Today's low temp occurred during that period of early afternoon showers.
Our weather scenario remains very changeable, unsettled and unstable, and will stay that way through Saturday. We're having to deal with several weak upper-level disturbances/circulations riding through on a west-northwesterly flow aloft -- each containing little pockets of much colder air in the higher levels of the atmosphere. Any shower/thundershower development will transport some of that colder air down to the surface... which we dealt with first-hand this afternoon. Although there will likely be some periods of sunshine at times during the coming few days, clouds will probably dominate.
Scattered showers and thundershowers could occur at any time, but it still looks like the majority of rainfall will happen between Friday and Saturday evening, as a more potent disturbance moves through. The good news is that we should see a sharp drop in rain chances by late Saturday night into Easter Sunday, with a period of quiet weather and significantly warmer temperatures being hinted at for early next week.
Check the CURRENT FORECAST details on the tab above.
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Wednesday's stats:
Low temp: 52.2F (11.2C)
High temp: 64.0F (17.8C)
Rainfall: 0.09" (2mm) -- updated @ 817pm
It's mostly cloudy this evening, with a rather large area of showers with some thunder hovering just to our west-northwest. The best weather of the day occurred during the early morning hours, when we had a couple of hours of dim sunshine, and temperatures which nudged 64F (nearly 18C). Clouds thickened up thereafter, though, leading to a few sprinkles after 11am, and then a short period of rain showers between 1:30 and 2:00pm. The sun tried desperately to break through again during the mid-afternoon, but didn't do a very good job of it. Today's low temp occurred during that period of early afternoon showers.
Our weather scenario remains very changeable, unsettled and unstable, and will stay that way through Saturday. We're having to deal with several weak upper-level disturbances/circulations riding through on a west-northwesterly flow aloft -- each containing little pockets of much colder air in the higher levels of the atmosphere. Any shower/thundershower development will transport some of that colder air down to the surface... which we dealt with first-hand this afternoon. Although there will likely be some periods of sunshine at times during the coming few days, clouds will probably dominate.
Scattered showers and thundershowers could occur at any time, but it still looks like the majority of rainfall will happen between Friday and Saturday evening, as a more potent disturbance moves through. The good news is that we should see a sharp drop in rain chances by late Saturday night into Easter Sunday, with a period of quiet weather and significantly warmer temperatures being hinted at for early next week.
Check the CURRENT FORECAST details on the tab above.
