Saturday's stats:
Low temp: 63.3F (17.4C)
High temp: 67.1F (19.5C)
Rainfall: 0.15" (4mm)
It's a very grey and gloomy evening, with totally overcast skies and some patchy fog clinging to the higher mountain slopes, but there's no rain falling at the moment. In fact, there has been very little light rain or drizzle since the late morning -- with all of our measurable rainfall for the day occurring before about 11:00am. If we don't get something developing before midnight, today will go down in the books as the "least wet" day in a couple of weeks.
I'd like to say that today's drier conditions are a sign of things to come, but that's definitely not the case. More than likely, today will turn out to be an aberration in the midst of a continuing active phase of this year's monsoon. I mentioned this morning that the upper-level pattern is shifting a bit -- and that could be the reason for today's break in the action -- but all of the available data is pointing to an increasing potential for some moderate to heavy rain as we finish off the weekend and head through about the first half of next week. I have a feeling we're going to get dumped on pretty good, at least once or twice, by the time Wednesday morning arrives.
Maybe we'll get surprised, but I doubt there will be much sunshine -- if any at all -- during the next five or six days. If that's indeed the case, then our temperatures are going to stay mainly in the 63-70F (17-21C) range, which is fairly close to the norm for the dead-middle of the monsoon season.
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