Thursday, July 31, 2014

july's final hours... (am.31.jul.14)>

We have a mid-level overcast sky early this morning, but I don't see much in the way of low cloudiness or fog at the moment.  It's been a quiet and mild night -- I've recorded no rainfall, and the overnight low has been 65.8F (18.8C).  The humidity reading this morning is 85%.

Well we've made it to the final day of July, and due to the very heavy rainfall totals over the course of the last three days or so, it looks like we'll be ending the month very close to historical averages.  Of course there are still about 17 hours to go, so we can't put an official wrap on it just yet.  It seems to me that the overall data and computer model projections are trending toward a slightly drier air mass as we head into the weekend -- but it's also looking slightly warmer as well.  Those two things may cancel each other out, keeping the atmosphere just unstable enough to continue getting occasional downpours of rain, which could be moderate to heavy for generally short durations.

It's looking pretty good for us to see some sunshine peeking through at times -- especially tomorrow (Fri), Saturday, and perhaps on Sunday.  Still, any sunshine won't last long, and will just make it warm and steamy enough to trigger more rain showers and even some thunder.

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