Thursday's stats:
Low temp: 63.5F (17.5C)
High temp: 70.7F (21.5C)
Rainfall: 0.35" (9mm)
It's really a gorgeous evening out there, with mainly mid- and high clouds, and very little low cloudiness or fog right now. We've had some major variability in conditions today, with some decent peeks of sunshine this morning and again during the evening hours. However, there have also been some periods of thick clouds and fog which yielded a few mainly light rain showers off and on throughout the day. Still, the total rainfall since midnight has been small compared to daily totals since Sunday.
The heavy rains of the last several days have cooled our temperatures down gradually -- and today's high temp at my location was the coolest of the past twelve days. This cooler air mass is also not quite as packed with thermodynamic energy as it was just 36 hours ago or so, and that's kept the shower development much more tame. It looks like we're just now starting on a trend toward an overall less moisture-packed environment, with average humidity levels expected to drop a bit between now and Sunday. That doesn't mean rain chances will totally come to an end though -- we could still get some significant rain development on occasion right through the weekend. It seems likely that a few sunny breaks will happen now and then as well.
The next surge of deep monsoon moisture won't wait long to come back... possibly arriving on Monday or Tuesday... setting us up for more saturated conditions and long-lasting heavy rains for much of next week.
CURRENT FORECAST specifics are available on the tab above.
Low temp: 63.5F (17.5C)
High temp: 70.7F (21.5C)
Rainfall: 0.35" (9mm)
It's really a gorgeous evening out there, with mainly mid- and high clouds, and very little low cloudiness or fog right now. We've had some major variability in conditions today, with some decent peeks of sunshine this morning and again during the evening hours. However, there have also been some periods of thick clouds and fog which yielded a few mainly light rain showers off and on throughout the day. Still, the total rainfall since midnight has been small compared to daily totals since Sunday.
The heavy rains of the last several days have cooled our temperatures down gradually -- and today's high temp at my location was the coolest of the past twelve days. This cooler air mass is also not quite as packed with thermodynamic energy as it was just 36 hours ago or so, and that's kept the shower development much more tame. It looks like we're just now starting on a trend toward an overall less moisture-packed environment, with average humidity levels expected to drop a bit between now and Sunday. That doesn't mean rain chances will totally come to an end though -- we could still get some significant rain development on occasion right through the weekend. It seems likely that a few sunny breaks will happen now and then as well.
The next surge of deep monsoon moisture won't wait long to come back... possibly arriving on Monday or Tuesday... setting us up for more saturated conditions and long-lasting heavy rains for much of next week.
CURRENT FORECAST specifics are available on the tab above.
