Monday's stats:
Low temp: 62.2F (16.8C)
High temp: 77.7F (25.4C)
Rainfall: none
Late April gorgeousness is in full swing this evening, with almost totally clear skies just before sunset. It's becoming routine that we achieve a new high temperature for the season and the year on a daily basis, and it's happened again today. In fact, we're finally getting temps matching seasonal norms for the first time in many weeks. Although there were a few cumulus clouds attempting to boil up over the mountain peaks, sunshine was firmly in control.
Our summer-like weather pattern has been evolving almost exactly as expected the last few days, as a broad and strong ridge of high pressure continues to build across northwest India. It looks like there is plenty more significant warming on the way as we head through the week, taking us above 80F (26.7C) as we make our move from April into May.
This very stable atmosphere will be in jeopardy, however, by the latter part of the week. Warming in the lower levels is expected to continue, while it stalls in the upper-levels of the atmosphere. That proportionately cooler air aloft by Thursday and Friday is going to lend itself to a better chance of some isolated thundershower development, mainly over the mountains, as we head into the weekend. Right now it still appears that we'll have a good amount of sunshine along with summery warmth, but we may have to prepare ourselves for some thundershower-dodging.
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