We had a rowdy round of showers and thunder during the middle of the night. I had about 0.70" (1.8cm) at my location on Tushita Road below the mountaineering center, which is still nothing close to the kinds of rainfall amounts the computer models have continued to threaten us with. My overnight low temp of 59.9F (15.5C) was the coolest I've recorded for the month of August. There is some sunshine trying break through the clouds early this morning, with the humidity at 89%.
Some drier air nudging in from the west and northwest is trying to displace the tropical/monsoon air mass over northern India -- but there could be yet some battle lines drawn during the next 24 hours or so. We're going to have to remain on guard for more rain/thunder development today and tonight, but sunshine is going to be trying to bust out as well.
It looks like we may be seeing quite a lot of the sun during the early part of the new week, as our atmosphere dries out considerably for this time of the year. Still... we've had measurable rainfall each and every day since the 12th of July, so some afternoon mountain thundershower development is a good bet, even if the overall pattern is looking drier and calmer for a few days...
Some drier air nudging in from the west and northwest is trying to displace the tropical/monsoon air mass over northern India -- but there could be yet some battle lines drawn during the next 24 hours or so. We're going to have to remain on guard for more rain/thunder development today and tonight, but sunshine is going to be trying to bust out as well.
It looks like we may be seeing quite a lot of the sun during the early part of the new week, as our atmosphere dries out considerably for this time of the year. Still... we've had measurable rainfall each and every day since the 12th of July, so some afternoon mountain thundershower development is a good bet, even if the overall pattern is looking drier and calmer for a few days...
