Tuesday's stats:
Low temp: 66.2F (19.0C)
High temp: 73.6F (23.1C)
Rainfall: 1.82" (4.6cm)
We have a variety of mainly mid- and high-level cloudiness across the area this evening, but not much low clouds and/or fog at the moment. The sun managed to hold on pretty well until about 10 o'clock this morning, but then the clouds and fog thickened up, and some heavy rain showers developed. Most of today's rainfall occurred between 1:00 and 4:00pm, with a couple of very heavy downpours between about 2:00 and 3:30pm. The total I measured in the upper part of town (see stats above) was the largest since last Wednesday.
The substantial dumping we experienced today is a preview of the surging tropical moisture and return to more active monsoon conditions that are now underway. Day after day I complain about the woeful inconsistency between computer models -- and that continues -- but as the mid- and upper-level flow turns more to the east and southeast, we'll be seeing the average moisture content of our air mass continue to increase. Right now it's looking like we'll see significant and even notably heavy rainfall amounts each 24 hour period throughout the rest of this week... and probably into next week as well.
It's still kind of amazing to me that there has been so little fog and periods of 90-100% humidity this monsoon season up til now -- but I am almost certain that we're not going to remain so lucky for much longer.
The UPDATED RAINFALL TALLY and CURRENT FORECAST can be found on tabs at the top of this page.
Low temp: 66.2F (19.0C)
High temp: 73.6F (23.1C)
Rainfall: 1.82" (4.6cm)
We have a variety of mainly mid- and high-level cloudiness across the area this evening, but not much low clouds and/or fog at the moment. The sun managed to hold on pretty well until about 10 o'clock this morning, but then the clouds and fog thickened up, and some heavy rain showers developed. Most of today's rainfall occurred between 1:00 and 4:00pm, with a couple of very heavy downpours between about 2:00 and 3:30pm. The total I measured in the upper part of town (see stats above) was the largest since last Wednesday.
The substantial dumping we experienced today is a preview of the surging tropical moisture and return to more active monsoon conditions that are now underway. Day after day I complain about the woeful inconsistency between computer models -- and that continues -- but as the mid- and upper-level flow turns more to the east and southeast, we'll be seeing the average moisture content of our air mass continue to increase. Right now it's looking like we'll see significant and even notably heavy rainfall amounts each 24 hour period throughout the rest of this week... and probably into next week as well.
It's still kind of amazing to me that there has been so little fog and periods of 90-100% humidity this monsoon season up til now -- but I am almost certain that we're not going to remain so lucky for much longer.
The UPDATED RAINFALL TALLY and CURRENT FORECAST can be found on tabs at the top of this page.
