*Update @ 9:43pm... Some lightning appearing to the northwest, and satellite pics show a few thundershowers drifting our way from the west-northwest. We may have some action overnight. Current temp is a very mild 68.9F (20.5C).
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Thursday's stats:
Low temp: 62.2F (16.8C)
High temp: 77.7F (25.4C)
Rainfall: none
It's one of the most beautiful and comfortable evenings of the season and the year -- with mostly clear skies other than a few streaks of high cirrus clouds, along with very pleasant temperatures. There was a respectable build-up of clouds over the mountains from the late morning into the late afternoon, but isolated thundershower development to our north and east never got anywhere near us. Lots of sunshine contributed to the warmest high temp I've recorded since back on the 10th of the month.
The evolving scenario as we move toward the weekend looks like a rather complicated one, with this evening's computer model data showing a lot of disagreement in solutions. We've got a few disturbances with upper-level energy/circulations trying to drop in from the northwest, as a warmer air mass continues to attempt to approach from the south. At the same time, we've also got a ridge of high pressure slowly advancing from the west and southwest. Meteorologically speaking, that paints a very uncertain picture for us during the coming three or four days.
The main issue is that we will be seeing a better chance of a few waves of showers and/or thunderstorms starting as early as late tonight, and continuing through Monday. However, there could be long quiet periods between any of that action, allowing us to continue to see a good amount of sunshine on occasion. It looks like the kind of situation when/where we just need to be aware and prepared for sudden changes anytime of the day or night until the weather pattern changes for the better by late Monday into Tuesday. There are hints of a fairly dramatic rise in temperatures by the middle of next week...
The CURRENT FORECAST specifics can always be found on the tab at the top of the page.
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Thursday's stats:
Low temp: 62.2F (16.8C)
High temp: 77.7F (25.4C)
Rainfall: none
It's one of the most beautiful and comfortable evenings of the season and the year -- with mostly clear skies other than a few streaks of high cirrus clouds, along with very pleasant temperatures. There was a respectable build-up of clouds over the mountains from the late morning into the late afternoon, but isolated thundershower development to our north and east never got anywhere near us. Lots of sunshine contributed to the warmest high temp I've recorded since back on the 10th of the month.
The evolving scenario as we move toward the weekend looks like a rather complicated one, with this evening's computer model data showing a lot of disagreement in solutions. We've got a few disturbances with upper-level energy/circulations trying to drop in from the northwest, as a warmer air mass continues to attempt to approach from the south. At the same time, we've also got a ridge of high pressure slowly advancing from the west and southwest. Meteorologically speaking, that paints a very uncertain picture for us during the coming three or four days.
The main issue is that we will be seeing a better chance of a few waves of showers and/or thunderstorms starting as early as late tonight, and continuing through Monday. However, there could be long quiet periods between any of that action, allowing us to continue to see a good amount of sunshine on occasion. It looks like the kind of situation when/where we just need to be aware and prepared for sudden changes anytime of the day or night until the weather pattern changes for the better by late Monday into Tuesday. There are hints of a fairly dramatic rise in temperatures by the middle of next week...
The CURRENT FORECAST specifics can always be found on the tab at the top of the page.
