Another beautiful April morning is dawning, with clear skies, comfortable temperatures and low humidity. I'm recording a low of 61.0F (16.1C) here in the upper part of town, with just a trace of rainfall from the scattered thundershowers that moved through the area late last evening. The humidity reading this morning is 35%.
The weak upper-level circulation that was hovering to our north yesterday finally did ignite some random thundershowers here on this side of the Dhauladhars last evening, but at least from what I witnessed, it was mostly thunder, lightning and a brief period of gusty winds, with only a few drops of rain. What's left of that little system has now moved well off to the east, as a large summer-like ridge of high pressure begins to build across northern India. This is going to be our main weather feature until the end of this week, allowing progressively warmer air throughout all layers of the atmosphere to establish itself. The only thing we have to be concerned about is the afternoon instability issues over the mountains which are always very difficult to predict, and could lead to the development of considerable PM clouds and even an isolated shower/thundershower up there. We'll have to watch that day by day.
Otherwise it looks like we're in line for lots of sunshine and temperatures which will continue to climb higher and higher all the way through at least Wednesday. Our April-to-May transition will feature temps that are actually ABOVE NORMAL for the season -- and it's been a long time since we've been able to say that.
The CURRENT FORECAST details are available on the tab above.
The weak upper-level circulation that was hovering to our north yesterday finally did ignite some random thundershowers here on this side of the Dhauladhars last evening, but at least from what I witnessed, it was mostly thunder, lightning and a brief period of gusty winds, with only a few drops of rain. What's left of that little system has now moved well off to the east, as a large summer-like ridge of high pressure begins to build across northern India. This is going to be our main weather feature until the end of this week, allowing progressively warmer air throughout all layers of the atmosphere to establish itself. The only thing we have to be concerned about is the afternoon instability issues over the mountains which are always very difficult to predict, and could lead to the development of considerable PM clouds and even an isolated shower/thundershower up there. We'll have to watch that day by day.
Otherwise it looks like we're in line for lots of sunshine and temperatures which will continue to climb higher and higher all the way through at least Wednesday. Our April-to-May transition will feature temps that are actually ABOVE NORMAL for the season -- and it's been a long time since we've been able to say that.
The CURRENT FORECAST details are available on the tab above.
