Saturday's stats:
Low temp: 60.6F (15.9C)
High temp: 72.7F (22.6C)
Rainfall: none
We have partly cloudy skies with some haze this evening, at the end of a fairly decent Saturday. It didn't look very promising early this morning, with overcast skies sticking around until around 10:00am, keeping our temperatures from getting off to a good start. But the sunshine did a good job of gradually taking control as the day wore on, allowing temps to warm up more than it looked like they might. Satellite pics show evidence of some isolated thundershowers over the mountains to our east, but none of that got anywhere near McLeod.
We're caught on the dividing line between a weakening upper-level disturbance continuing to spin around over western Afghanistan, and a moderately strong ridge of high pressure still trying to exert its influence over northern India. This situation is keeping us from enjoying a totally settled atmosphere, and also unstable enough for the development of a few clouds to occur, along with some isolated shower and/or thundershower action in Himachal as well. I still think significant rain chances will be low -- but we can't entirely rule out a shower as we head through the remainder of the weekend.
The trend among the various computer models is toward a fairly uneventful scenario during much of the coming week. There are some adjustments in the upper-level pattern which will have to be watched, but in general, things look quiet and progressively warmer. Even so, it's likely that our high temps will remain a bit below normal as we transition into the final one-third of May.
CURRENT FORECAST details are always available on the tab above.
Low temp: 60.6F (15.9C)
High temp: 72.7F (22.6C)
Rainfall: none
We have partly cloudy skies with some haze this evening, at the end of a fairly decent Saturday. It didn't look very promising early this morning, with overcast skies sticking around until around 10:00am, keeping our temperatures from getting off to a good start. But the sunshine did a good job of gradually taking control as the day wore on, allowing temps to warm up more than it looked like they might. Satellite pics show evidence of some isolated thundershowers over the mountains to our east, but none of that got anywhere near McLeod.
We're caught on the dividing line between a weakening upper-level disturbance continuing to spin around over western Afghanistan, and a moderately strong ridge of high pressure still trying to exert its influence over northern India. This situation is keeping us from enjoying a totally settled atmosphere, and also unstable enough for the development of a few clouds to occur, along with some isolated shower and/or thundershower action in Himachal as well. I still think significant rain chances will be low -- but we can't entirely rule out a shower as we head through the remainder of the weekend.
The trend among the various computer models is toward a fairly uneventful scenario during much of the coming week. There are some adjustments in the upper-level pattern which will have to be watched, but in general, things look quiet and progressively warmer. Even so, it's likely that our high temps will remain a bit below normal as we transition into the final one-third of May.
CURRENT FORECAST details are always available on the tab above.
