After a rocking start to the month of August, average daily rainfall has gradually slowed down during the past ten days or so -- and has almost fizzled out completely during the past couple of days. Check the UPDATED RAINFALL TALLY (tab above) to scroll through the day-by-day rainfall amounts that have been recorded since June.
We have partly cloudy skies on this Tuesday morning, with a humidity reading of 85%. My overnight low temp has been 64.0F (17.8C), and there has been no rain since those brief showers last evening.
Although we're in a major retreat phase of monsoon conditions, it's pretty tough to totally erase lingering low-level moisture from the equation this time of year. It's something that is usually entirely overlooked by computer models, and can provide surprises here along the mountain slopes. Yesterday's beautiful morning sunshine was eclipsed by rapid cloud and fog development by mid-day -- the fog was very thick for awhile during the evening, with some drizzle and brief showers around the area as well. We'll likely see more of that disparity in conditions between AM and PM as we progress through the rest of this week. In fact, the risk of significant rainfall will be on the increase once again, as deeper moisture creeps back in our direction by Thursday or Friday.
