It has looked like the sun might peek through a bit early this morning, but the clouds seem to be thickening up again during the past half hour or so, with some patches of fog visible as well. We've had a fairly quiet night -- my rain gauge shows just 0.02" (less than 1mm) since last evening's report, and the humidity reading stands at 90%. The overnight low temp here on Tushita Road below the mountaineering center has been 64.2F (17.9C).
A weak northerly flow in the upper levels of the atmosphere in combination with a turn to more of a south-southeasterly flow in the lower levels will provide the right dynamics to produce rain showers around the area again today. There is still plenty of moisture in this air mass, in spite of our huge dumping just 24 hours ago, so some heavy downpours are not out of the question. This scenario applies not only to today, but pretty much every day as we head toward the weekend and beyond. Of course there will be some dry stretches between periods of rain showers -- and maybe we can come up with some brief periods of sun in the midst of it all as well.
Otherwise, it's really a mundane outlook, which is totally normal as we ease into August. The overall weather pattern isn't subject to many significant/dramatic shifts this time of year -- just the micro-scale ebbs and flows of tropical moisture here along the mountain slopes.
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A weak northerly flow in the upper levels of the atmosphere in combination with a turn to more of a south-southeasterly flow in the lower levels will provide the right dynamics to produce rain showers around the area again today. There is still plenty of moisture in this air mass, in spite of our huge dumping just 24 hours ago, so some heavy downpours are not out of the question. This scenario applies not only to today, but pretty much every day as we head toward the weekend and beyond. Of course there will be some dry stretches between periods of rain showers -- and maybe we can come up with some brief periods of sun in the midst of it all as well.
Otherwise, it's really a mundane outlook, which is totally normal as we ease into August. The overall weather pattern isn't subject to many significant/dramatic shifts this time of year -- just the micro-scale ebbs and flows of tropical moisture here along the mountain slopes.
Take a look at CURRENT FORECAST details and other info, which can be found on tabs above.
