The sun is trying to fight its way through mostly cloudy skies early this Friday morning. The sunrise temperature is 66.6F (19.2C), but I'm recording an overnight low of 55.4 (13.0C) which occurred during our late night thundershowers. Those thundershowers began moving in shortly after 10:00pm, depositing 0.23" (6mm) in my rain gauge here on Tushita Road below the mountaineering center before quickly exiting. The humidity reading this morning is rather low -- at 36%.
That round of thundershowers that drifted in from the northwest last night was a preliminary taste of what we might expect during the coming several days, thanks to an atmosphere that is going to be on the unsettled and unstable side through Monday. Any shower and thunderstorm action is going to be of the scattered variety -- moving in and out -- leaving us with more dry hours than wet ones over the weekend into early next week. Computer model data is still looking very inconsistent this morning, with some models showing us getting very little rainfall, and another one or two indicating that we'll get hit hard at some point over the weekend. Just be aware of changing conditions and don't get caught unprepared.
Temperatures will be entirely dependent on fluctuations between sun, clouds, and occasional thundershowers -- but will remain several degrees cooler than normal for late May, on average. Extended range data is hinting at a turn to much warmer weather starting during the middle of next week, and it is certainly past time for that. Between now and mid-June is usually the hottest time of the year here in McLeod Ganj, but my thermometer has only gone above 80F (27C) a few times thus far -- and that was way back during the April to May transition.
CURRENT FORECAST info can be found on the tab above.
That round of thundershowers that drifted in from the northwest last night was a preliminary taste of what we might expect during the coming several days, thanks to an atmosphere that is going to be on the unsettled and unstable side through Monday. Any shower and thunderstorm action is going to be of the scattered variety -- moving in and out -- leaving us with more dry hours than wet ones over the weekend into early next week. Computer model data is still looking very inconsistent this morning, with some models showing us getting very little rainfall, and another one or two indicating that we'll get hit hard at some point over the weekend. Just be aware of changing conditions and don't get caught unprepared.
Temperatures will be entirely dependent on fluctuations between sun, clouds, and occasional thundershowers -- but will remain several degrees cooler than normal for late May, on average. Extended range data is hinting at a turn to much warmer weather starting during the middle of next week, and it is certainly past time for that. Between now and mid-June is usually the hottest time of the year here in McLeod Ganj, but my thermometer has only gone above 80F (27C) a few times thus far -- and that was way back during the April to May transition.
CURRENT FORECAST info can be found on the tab above.
