Saturday's stats:
Low temp: 62.2F (16.8C)
High temp: 68.4F (20.2C)
Rainfall: 0.73" (1.9cm)
We can call it partly sunny this evening, near the end of a day which has featured plenty of variety. There were glimpses of sun early this morning, with a good amount of sun late this afternoon and evening -- but in between, we had lots of cloudiness, patchy fog, and some relatively brief but healthy rain showers (and thunder). The vast majority of the rain occurred in the noon to 4:00pm range.
By just after midnight tonight, it will be exactly one week since we moved into a period of much more typical monsoon conditions than we were dealing with during the first twelve days of July. I've measured nearly 16 inches of rain during that time, which could end up being one of the largest weekly totals of the entire monsoon season when all is said and done. Although there have been subtle reductions in the average moisture content of our air mass during the past 24 hours or so, conditions are going to remain favorable for scattered/occasional rain and thundershower development as we head into the first part of the new week. We may even see a bit of a warm-up during the next couple of days, after some unusually cool temps since Thursday.
It still looks like the next surge of really deep and rich tropical moisture will come knocking sometime late Monday or Tuesday, and that's going to reintroduce the likelihood of some long-lasting, consistent and persistent heavy rainfall for the middle and latter parts of next week. We're now getting into the very heart of the monsoon season, according to historical and climatological records, so that's to be expected.
Check the CURRENT FORECAST and keep track of the UPDATED RAINFALL TALLY on tabs above.
Low temp: 62.2F (16.8C)
High temp: 68.4F (20.2C)
Rainfall: 0.73" (1.9cm)
We can call it partly sunny this evening, near the end of a day which has featured plenty of variety. There were glimpses of sun early this morning, with a good amount of sun late this afternoon and evening -- but in between, we had lots of cloudiness, patchy fog, and some relatively brief but healthy rain showers (and thunder). The vast majority of the rain occurred in the noon to 4:00pm range.
By just after midnight tonight, it will be exactly one week since we moved into a period of much more typical monsoon conditions than we were dealing with during the first twelve days of July. I've measured nearly 16 inches of rain during that time, which could end up being one of the largest weekly totals of the entire monsoon season when all is said and done. Although there have been subtle reductions in the average moisture content of our air mass during the past 24 hours or so, conditions are going to remain favorable for scattered/occasional rain and thundershower development as we head into the first part of the new week. We may even see a bit of a warm-up during the next couple of days, after some unusually cool temps since Thursday.
It still looks like the next surge of really deep and rich tropical moisture will come knocking sometime late Monday or Tuesday, and that's going to reintroduce the likelihood of some long-lasting, consistent and persistent heavy rainfall for the middle and latter parts of next week. We're now getting into the very heart of the monsoon season, according to historical and climatological records, so that's to be expected.
Check the CURRENT FORECAST and keep track of the UPDATED RAINFALL TALLY on tabs above.
