Wednesday's stats:
Low temp: 64.0F (17.8C)
High temp: 70.1F (21.2C)
Rainfall since 6:30am: 1.80" (4.6cm)
Rainfall since midnight: 5.46" (13.9cm)
Today will go down in the books as having the heaviest rainfall total of the entire monsoon season up to this point. We had several bursts of extremely heavy rain between late last night and mid-morning, with sputtering light rain showers lasting into the mid-day hours, and even a few sprinkles on and off during the afternoon. It was nice to see the sunshine briefly appear a few times this afternoon -- and even now as sunset approaches, there are some patches of blue sky visible in the midst of clouds and fog.
Our rainfall amounts since the last two or three days of July have been incredible, as you can see from the MONSOON 2015: RAINFALL TALLY tab at the top of the page. But we have been in the bull's eye center of the historical/climatological dates of the monsoon season here in Himalayan north India, so this really is the time to get the heaviest rains of the year. Still, we've been running well ahead of the normal pace the last couple of weeks, and will end up with an August total way above normal if this keeps up.
There will be the normal pulses of periodic rain, punctuated by some dry hours and even some brief partial clearing at times -- into the weekend and early next week. The way things stand, there is still no evidence of a significant retreat of tropical moisture until perhaps the 24th-25th of this month. Even then, it won't be a permanent withdrawal. We've got at least four or five weeks before that can be considered.
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Low temp: 64.0F (17.8C)
High temp: 70.1F (21.2C)
Rainfall since 6:30am: 1.80" (4.6cm)
Rainfall since midnight: 5.46" (13.9cm)
Today will go down in the books as having the heaviest rainfall total of the entire monsoon season up to this point. We had several bursts of extremely heavy rain between late last night and mid-morning, with sputtering light rain showers lasting into the mid-day hours, and even a few sprinkles on and off during the afternoon. It was nice to see the sunshine briefly appear a few times this afternoon -- and even now as sunset approaches, there are some patches of blue sky visible in the midst of clouds and fog.
Our rainfall amounts since the last two or three days of July have been incredible, as you can see from the MONSOON 2015: RAINFALL TALLY tab at the top of the page. But we have been in the bull's eye center of the historical/climatological dates of the monsoon season here in Himalayan north India, so this really is the time to get the heaviest rains of the year. Still, we've been running well ahead of the normal pace the last couple of weeks, and will end up with an August total way above normal if this keeps up.
There will be the normal pulses of periodic rain, punctuated by some dry hours and even some brief partial clearing at times -- into the weekend and early next week. The way things stand, there is still no evidence of a significant retreat of tropical moisture until perhaps the 24th-25th of this month. Even then, it won't be a permanent withdrawal. We've got at least four or five weeks before that can be considered.
Check tabs above for further info...
