*Update @ 8:28am... The fog is extremely thick, and it's really dark. I'm starting to get some rain showers up here at my location, and there's been some thunder rumbling as well. The latest satellite images show us on the very northern fringe of a huge area of rain encompassing about the southwestern two-thirds of Himachal, and most of Punjab. This whole rain/thunder system isn't really moving, but it's pulsating, morphing, developing and dissipating around it's edges like some kind of organism.!
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It's cloudy early on this Monday morning, and the fog has been attempting to thicken up a bit during the past half hour or so. My low temperature here in the upper part of town has been 64.9F (18.3C), and my rain gauge shows just a trace of precipitation overnight. The humidity is currently 90%.
There was lightning visible off to the south and west at around 3:30-4:00am, and this morning's satellite pics show a large cluster of rain and embedded thunder not far south of us -- extending all the way into much of the eastern half of Punjab. Upper level winds are extremely light, so this area of rain is drifting only slowly, but could develop further to the north this morning.
Otherwise, we remain in the same situation we've been in for many days -- there is plenty of tropical moisture in the air, which will manifest in occasional periods of rain here in our neighborhood. I'm a little stunned that we've still been unable to come up with any genuinely heavy rainfall by now, considering the fact that most of the computer model data has been painting an ugly picture; much uglier than we've seen in reality. But -- there are only the most subtle changes to the overall pattern indicated throughout this week, so that means we could get dumped on at any time.
CURRENT FORECAST details are available on the tab above.
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It's cloudy early on this Monday morning, and the fog has been attempting to thicken up a bit during the past half hour or so. My low temperature here in the upper part of town has been 64.9F (18.3C), and my rain gauge shows just a trace of precipitation overnight. The humidity is currently 90%.
There was lightning visible off to the south and west at around 3:30-4:00am, and this morning's satellite pics show a large cluster of rain and embedded thunder not far south of us -- extending all the way into much of the eastern half of Punjab. Upper level winds are extremely light, so this area of rain is drifting only slowly, but could develop further to the north this morning.
Otherwise, we remain in the same situation we've been in for many days -- there is plenty of tropical moisture in the air, which will manifest in occasional periods of rain here in our neighborhood. I'm a little stunned that we've still been unable to come up with any genuinely heavy rainfall by now, considering the fact that most of the computer model data has been painting an ugly picture; much uglier than we've seen in reality. But -- there are only the most subtle changes to the overall pattern indicated throughout this week, so that means we could get dumped on at any time.
CURRENT FORECAST details are available on the tab above.
