Sunday's stats:
Low temp: 63.5F (17.5C)
High temp: 73.0F (22.8C)
Rainfall: trace
It's partly cloudy this evening, after narrowly escaping some significant thundershower activity here in McLeod proper. Today featured a lot of sunshine until the late morning, when clouds and fog rapidly developed (again) -- leading to a couple of hours of very thick clouds and fog during the late afternoon. It really looked like we were going to get dumped on, like yesterday evening, but there were nothing other than a few sprinkles and very brief, light showers, along with some rumbling thunder for a while between about 4:15 and 5:30pm.
The second half of August this year (so far) has been nothing short of surreal, with monsoon conditions lapsing into an extended very weak phase. We're suspended in a kind of limbo state, where we're tempted to think the monsoon has totally abandoned us -- while actually it's really not at all safe to say that yet. The normal/average monsoon withdrawal date is still more than three weeks away, and all kinds of things could happen in that amount of time, and even beyond.
In the near term, we can expect this sun/cloud/fog combo to continue on a daily basis, along with a good chance of some PM shower/thunder development affecting us. The extended range data is hinting at a resurgence of deeper moisture by the end of this week, which could increase our rainfall potential just in time for September's arrival.
