There are more clouds around this morning than we've seen the previous few mornings, but there's some sun breaking through as well. My low temp in the upper part of town has been 65.8F (18.8C), with just a trace of rainfall overnight, thanks to some light drizzle during the evening. The current humidity reading is 86%.
My rain gauge has been doing very little work recently, in fact, I've recorded only 0.10" (2mm+) of rain in the past five days. That's an insanely small amount for the third week of August, obviously. Overall, the vast array of data supplied by various computer models continues to show a little better/more favorable scenario for the development of more substantial rain shower action -- but none of that "theory" has manifested in reality as of this moment.
As I've mentioned -- though there's no sign of any kind of dramatic resurgence of truly deep/rich tropical moisture (and the dynamics to stir up longer-lasting and heavier rains) during the coming several days, there is also no indication of a long-term pattern shift that will truly put an end to this year's monsoon. It's still a few weeks too early for that. Seems we'll continue to languish in this very tepid phase, until further notice...
By the way, as I'm sure everyone's already heard by now, yesterday's 4.9 earthquake had an epicenter very close to us -- just 24km (15mi) to the north-northeast near Bharmour in the Chamba Valley, directly on the other side of the Dhauladhars. A little too close for comfort!
My rain gauge has been doing very little work recently, in fact, I've recorded only 0.10" (2mm+) of rain in the past five days. That's an insanely small amount for the third week of August, obviously. Overall, the vast array of data supplied by various computer models continues to show a little better/more favorable scenario for the development of more substantial rain shower action -- but none of that "theory" has manifested in reality as of this moment.
As I've mentioned -- though there's no sign of any kind of dramatic resurgence of truly deep/rich tropical moisture (and the dynamics to stir up longer-lasting and heavier rains) during the coming several days, there is also no indication of a long-term pattern shift that will truly put an end to this year's monsoon. It's still a few weeks too early for that. Seems we'll continue to languish in this very tepid phase, until further notice...
By the way, as I'm sure everyone's already heard by now, yesterday's 4.9 earthquake had an epicenter very close to us -- just 24km (15mi) to the north-northeast near Bharmour in the Chamba Valley, directly on the other side of the Dhauladhars. A little too close for comfort!
