Friday, April 4, 2014

plenty of variables... (am.04.apr.14)>

*Update @ 1:45pm...  Well this day has gone almost totally off the rails with the development of some sprinkles and very light showers since just before 1pm.  But now the sky is starting to brighten up a bit...  hopefully there be will something salvageable left of the day.

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High clouds dominate our sky just before sunrise this morning, but I have a mild temp of 57.6F (14.2C).  The overnight low has been 54.0F (12.2C), and there has been no precipitation since last report.  The current humidity reading is 35%.

A broad ridge of high pressure is sprawled across northern India, as the warmest air of the season continues attempting to creep northward.  The problem is, we've got extensive areas of high clouds to contend with, which will prevent our temperatures from rising as much as they otherwise would with this incoming air mass.  But -- a few hours of sunshine here and there over the weekend should still take us higher than we've been so far this year.

There could be some isolated shower action higher up in the mountains to our north and east during the next couple of days, but better chances for some showers and thundershowers will enter the picture for us by late Sunday.  A brand new upper-level disturbance will approach by then, bringing us a period of off-and-on wet weather which could last all the way through Tuesday of next week.  There's really no evidence that we are breaking into anything resembling a longer-term dry and quiet pattern...

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