It is clear, calm and quiet as the sun peeks over the mountains early this Tuesday morning. I'm recording a very mild overnight low of 63.7F (17.6C), and there has been no precipitation since last report. The current humidity reading is 36%.
Temperatures have been climbing steadily since last Thursday, allowing us to reach new highs for the season and 2014 on each of the last five days. It looks like that trend will continue, with the first 80F (26.7C) temperature of the season on my thermometer here in the upper part of town by this afternoon. A giant, sprawling ridge of high pressure in the upper atmosphere is to thank for our recent summer preview.
It has been quite stable the last couple of days, but there are indications that we're going to lose that stability as the end of the week approaches, due to increasingly warmer surface temps clashing with some slight cooling which will start to occur aloft. That means we should see more afternoon cloud development over the mountains again by tomorrow, which could progress to some isolated thundershower action mainly during the PM hours as we head into the weekend. Our warming may finally stall out, but by that time we're going to be a few degrees above normal for the beginning of May anyway.
CURRENT FORECAST specifics can be found on the tab above.
Temperatures have been climbing steadily since last Thursday, allowing us to reach new highs for the season and 2014 on each of the last five days. It looks like that trend will continue, with the first 80F (26.7C) temperature of the season on my thermometer here in the upper part of town by this afternoon. A giant, sprawling ridge of high pressure in the upper atmosphere is to thank for our recent summer preview.
It has been quite stable the last couple of days, but there are indications that we're going to lose that stability as the end of the week approaches, due to increasingly warmer surface temps clashing with some slight cooling which will start to occur aloft. That means we should see more afternoon cloud development over the mountains again by tomorrow, which could progress to some isolated thundershower action mainly during the PM hours as we head into the weekend. Our warming may finally stall out, but by that time we're going to be a few degrees above normal for the beginning of May anyway.
CURRENT FORECAST specifics can be found on the tab above.
