Sunday's stats:
Low temp: 51.4F (10.8C)
High temp: 60.4F (15.8C)
Rainfall: 0.01" (less than 1mm)
We're actually having a fairly pleasant early evening, with partly cloudy skies just before sunset. Although there has been lots of cloudiness to deal with today, the showers never got going at all, leaving me with a barely measurable amount in my rain gauge on Tushita Road below the mountaineering center. The most substantial (though brief) shower occurred around 8am, with only some random sprinkles thereafter. The biggest news of the day was the significantly cooler temperatures, after the 70F weather of the last few days.
It turns out that computer models were indeed overdoing rainfall amounts across our area in conjunction with this weak disturbance moving through -- but I am very surprised that we've barely had any rain at all up to this point. There are still some showers and thundershowers to our northwest which could affect us overnight, but I think rain chances will decrease significantly by the wee hours of tomorrow morning. We'll have a break in the action on Monday and Tuesday, though we're going to have to constantly monitor the potential for high cirrus clouds at any time, and cumulus clouds developing over the mountains during the PM hours.
The west-northwesterly flow in the upper-levels that has been in place for about a week now will deliver a rather extended period of disturbances starting on Wednesday... continuing all the way through Saturday. Right now it looks like that's going to put us in a position to pick up some scattered shower and thundershower activity during that period, while keeping our temperatures from getting anywhere near what is normal for the middle of April.
Check the CURRENT FORECAST info on the tab above.
Low temp: 51.4F (10.8C)
High temp: 60.4F (15.8C)
Rainfall: 0.01" (less than 1mm)
We're actually having a fairly pleasant early evening, with partly cloudy skies just before sunset. Although there has been lots of cloudiness to deal with today, the showers never got going at all, leaving me with a barely measurable amount in my rain gauge on Tushita Road below the mountaineering center. The most substantial (though brief) shower occurred around 8am, with only some random sprinkles thereafter. The biggest news of the day was the significantly cooler temperatures, after the 70F weather of the last few days.
It turns out that computer models were indeed overdoing rainfall amounts across our area in conjunction with this weak disturbance moving through -- but I am very surprised that we've barely had any rain at all up to this point. There are still some showers and thundershowers to our northwest which could affect us overnight, but I think rain chances will decrease significantly by the wee hours of tomorrow morning. We'll have a break in the action on Monday and Tuesday, though we're going to have to constantly monitor the potential for high cirrus clouds at any time, and cumulus clouds developing over the mountains during the PM hours.
The west-northwesterly flow in the upper-levels that has been in place for about a week now will deliver a rather extended period of disturbances starting on Wednesday... continuing all the way through Saturday. Right now it looks like that's going to put us in a position to pick up some scattered shower and thundershower activity during that period, while keeping our temperatures from getting anywhere near what is normal for the middle of April.
Check the CURRENT FORECAST info on the tab above.
