Tuesday's stats:
Low temp: 52.0F (11.1C)
High temp: 75.7F (24.3C)
Rainfall: 0.87" (2.2cm)
It's generally cloudy to the north, and fair to partly cloudy off to the south this evening, with a few rain showers lingering north-northwest of us as well. Our sunshine and warm temperatures this morning were dramatically replaced by explosive thunderstorm development over the Dhauladhars during the noon hour -- and that brought us nearly three hours of rain showers, some small hail, gusty winds, and temperatures that plummeted more than 20F from noontime highs. There's been some nice recovery since about 3:20pm, both in terms of sunshine and temps.
We were victims of our Dhauladhar thunder machine today, which tends to kick in when the atmospheric instability is in a range that is not easily detected by the computer models. You may have noticed that there was sunshine just downhill from us all throughout our thundery episode this afternoon. Weak upper-level disturbances riding across the area on a northwesterly flow should diminish and/or disappear altogether during the next two or three days, but it's always smart for us to keep an eye on the afternoon development over the mountains nonetheless, as we learn time and time again.
The major warm-up that has been anticipated for several days now is just around the corner. It still looks like temperatures will be jumping upward by several degrees between tomorrow (Wed) and Friday, finally taking us into the normal range for the final days of May. Apart from the mountain thunder risk, the next decent chance of scattered shower/thunderstorm action is entering the picture by the weekend.
CURRENT FORECAST info can be found on the tab above.
Low temp: 52.0F (11.1C)
High temp: 75.7F (24.3C)
Rainfall: 0.87" (2.2cm)
It's generally cloudy to the north, and fair to partly cloudy off to the south this evening, with a few rain showers lingering north-northwest of us as well. Our sunshine and warm temperatures this morning were dramatically replaced by explosive thunderstorm development over the Dhauladhars during the noon hour -- and that brought us nearly three hours of rain showers, some small hail, gusty winds, and temperatures that plummeted more than 20F from noontime highs. There's been some nice recovery since about 3:20pm, both in terms of sunshine and temps.
We were victims of our Dhauladhar thunder machine today, which tends to kick in when the atmospheric instability is in a range that is not easily detected by the computer models. You may have noticed that there was sunshine just downhill from us all throughout our thundery episode this afternoon. Weak upper-level disturbances riding across the area on a northwesterly flow should diminish and/or disappear altogether during the next two or three days, but it's always smart for us to keep an eye on the afternoon development over the mountains nonetheless, as we learn time and time again.
The major warm-up that has been anticipated for several days now is just around the corner. It still looks like temperatures will be jumping upward by several degrees between tomorrow (Wed) and Friday, finally taking us into the normal range for the final days of May. Apart from the mountain thunder risk, the next decent chance of scattered shower/thunderstorm action is entering the picture by the weekend.
CURRENT FORECAST info can be found on the tab above.
