Sunday's stats:
Low temp: 54.1F (12.3C)
High temp: 73.6F (23.1C)
Rainfall: 1.65" (4.2cm)
The shield of clouds left over from today's rain and thunderstorms is visible off to the southeast, otherwise we have mostly clear skies just before sunset this evening. It was really, really wet until just before 2:00pm, with numerous waves of showers/thunder moving through the area -- but then we started to see some gradual clearing in the northwestern sky, finally leading to a return to sunshine just after 4:30pm. Temperatures today didn't feel at all like the first day of June -- the predominance of clouds and rain holding them around 15F below normal.
The whole weekend we've been on alert, as a series of upper-level disturbances trekked across northern India. Yesterday we lucked out, with all of the action remaining to our north, but starting during the wee hours of this morning, we ended up in the target zone for shower and thunderstorm development, as that upper-level energy ran across a lower atmosphere packed with very warm air holding plenty of latent moisture. It seems we could be just about done with this, though. Although there is a risk of a random period of showers/thunder before midnight, and perhaps an isolated shower or thundershower on Monday, stabilization is already getting underway.
An uneventful west-northwesterly flow will dominate the weather pattern all the way through the coming week, and at this point, there is no evidence of any significant disturbances on the way. That should set us up for a lot of summer sunshine with some mainly PM cloud development over the mountains, along with temperatures which will quickly rise toward seasonal normals by the middle and latter parts of the week. Yesterday's high of 83.9F (28.8C) was the warmest of the year, but we'll be heading higher than that in a matter of a few days...
CURRENT FORECAST details are available on the tab above.
Low temp: 54.1F (12.3C)
High temp: 73.6F (23.1C)
Rainfall: 1.65" (4.2cm)
The shield of clouds left over from today's rain and thunderstorms is visible off to the southeast, otherwise we have mostly clear skies just before sunset this evening. It was really, really wet until just before 2:00pm, with numerous waves of showers/thunder moving through the area -- but then we started to see some gradual clearing in the northwestern sky, finally leading to a return to sunshine just after 4:30pm. Temperatures today didn't feel at all like the first day of June -- the predominance of clouds and rain holding them around 15F below normal.
The whole weekend we've been on alert, as a series of upper-level disturbances trekked across northern India. Yesterday we lucked out, with all of the action remaining to our north, but starting during the wee hours of this morning, we ended up in the target zone for shower and thunderstorm development, as that upper-level energy ran across a lower atmosphere packed with very warm air holding plenty of latent moisture. It seems we could be just about done with this, though. Although there is a risk of a random period of showers/thunder before midnight, and perhaps an isolated shower or thundershower on Monday, stabilization is already getting underway.
An uneventful west-northwesterly flow will dominate the weather pattern all the way through the coming week, and at this point, there is no evidence of any significant disturbances on the way. That should set us up for a lot of summer sunshine with some mainly PM cloud development over the mountains, along with temperatures which will quickly rise toward seasonal normals by the middle and latter parts of the week. Yesterday's high of 83.9F (28.8C) was the warmest of the year, but we'll be heading higher than that in a matter of a few days...
CURRENT FORECAST details are available on the tab above.
