Saturday's stats:
Low temp: 64.9F (18.3C)
High temp: 73.9F (23.3C)
Rainfall: 1.78" (4.5cm) -- as of 7:40pm
We've got some beautiful cloudscape views around the area before sunset this evening, with a mix of clouds, fog and some patches of blue sky. Today has featured everything from periods of warm and muggy sunshine to very heavy downpours of rain with thunder. The showers didn't start developing until around 1:30pm, but gained momentum throughout the rest of the afternoon, leading to a few periods of very heavy rain which occurred mainly between about 2:45 and 5:00pm. My high temp in the upper part of town (see above) was the warmest since the 15th of July.
We really got dumped on this afternoon, but a look at the visible satellite photos show that nearly all of the rain/thunder development occurred right along the Dhauladhars, so there wasn't much action a lot further downhill toward the plains. As we've been talking about all the time lately -- this mid-monsoon sunshine is certainly nice to behold, but all it does is cause our moisture-laden air mass to heat up, become very unstable, and explode into convective shower/thunder development over the mountains.
The atmospheric flow from the surface into the upper-levels will continue to favor this type of weather pattern/scenario for another couple of days -- meaning we'll be able to enjoy more periods of sun, but also have to be on guard for the potential development of more of these heavy downpours, mainly during the late morning through early evening hours. There are signs of less sunshine, though, as we head toward the middle of the new week.
CURRENT FORECAST details are available on the tab at the top of the page.
Low temp: 64.9F (18.3C)
High temp: 73.9F (23.3C)
Rainfall: 1.78" (4.5cm) -- as of 7:40pm
We've got some beautiful cloudscape views around the area before sunset this evening, with a mix of clouds, fog and some patches of blue sky. Today has featured everything from periods of warm and muggy sunshine to very heavy downpours of rain with thunder. The showers didn't start developing until around 1:30pm, but gained momentum throughout the rest of the afternoon, leading to a few periods of very heavy rain which occurred mainly between about 2:45 and 5:00pm. My high temp in the upper part of town (see above) was the warmest since the 15th of July.
We really got dumped on this afternoon, but a look at the visible satellite photos show that nearly all of the rain/thunder development occurred right along the Dhauladhars, so there wasn't much action a lot further downhill toward the plains. As we've been talking about all the time lately -- this mid-monsoon sunshine is certainly nice to behold, but all it does is cause our moisture-laden air mass to heat up, become very unstable, and explode into convective shower/thunder development over the mountains.
The atmospheric flow from the surface into the upper-levels will continue to favor this type of weather pattern/scenario for another couple of days -- meaning we'll be able to enjoy more periods of sun, but also have to be on guard for the potential development of more of these heavy downpours, mainly during the late morning through early evening hours. There are signs of less sunshine, though, as we head toward the middle of the new week.
CURRENT FORECAST details are available on the tab at the top of the page.
