Wednesday's stats:
Low temp: 66.0F (18.9C)
High temp: 69.8F (21.0C)
Rainfall: 0.39" (1cm) -- updated at 8:00pm
We've been in the midst of a major atmospheric transition since late last night and early this morning, as the first in a new series of surges of juicy tropical air pushes up against the mountains. One of the largest discrepancies in rainfall totals for our area that I've ever seen occurred today -- our weather observer near Norbulingka recorded 5.8" (14.7cm) of rain, with most of that happening between 10:30am and 12:30pm. You can see from the stats above that my total for the entire day in the upper part of McLeod Ganj was only a very small fraction of that.
There has been much more cloudiness and fog today here in McLeod than we've had to endure recently, along with off and on mainly light rain showers since just before 11:00am. Humidity has been in the 88-100% range throughout the day.
As I've been alluding to for a few days now, we've got a much better chance of heavier rainfall during the rest of this week -- as some cooler air seeps in aloft, and over-runs the moisture-packed tropical air mass in place in the lower levels of the atmosphere. Our friends and neighbors downhill from us already got hammered today, and it's probably just a matter of time before we see our rainfall amounts increasing as well. There are signs that the next drying-out trend will begin on Sunday, and last through at least the first part of next week...
Low temp: 66.0F (18.9C)
High temp: 69.8F (21.0C)
Rainfall: 0.39" (1cm) -- updated at 8:00pm
We've been in the midst of a major atmospheric transition since late last night and early this morning, as the first in a new series of surges of juicy tropical air pushes up against the mountains. One of the largest discrepancies in rainfall totals for our area that I've ever seen occurred today -- our weather observer near Norbulingka recorded 5.8" (14.7cm) of rain, with most of that happening between 10:30am and 12:30pm. You can see from the stats above that my total for the entire day in the upper part of McLeod Ganj was only a very small fraction of that.
There has been much more cloudiness and fog today here in McLeod than we've had to endure recently, along with off and on mainly light rain showers since just before 11:00am. Humidity has been in the 88-100% range throughout the day.
As I've been alluding to for a few days now, we've got a much better chance of heavier rainfall during the rest of this week -- as some cooler air seeps in aloft, and over-runs the moisture-packed tropical air mass in place in the lower levels of the atmosphere. Our friends and neighbors downhill from us already got hammered today, and it's probably just a matter of time before we see our rainfall amounts increasing as well. There are signs that the next drying-out trend will begin on Sunday, and last through at least the first part of next week...
