Sunday's stats:
Low temp: 61.3F (16.3C)
High temp: 70.3F (21.3C)
Rainfall: 0.44" (1.1cm)
This evening at sunset we have partly cloudy skies with some clumps of fog drifting around, at the end of a day featuring lots of variability. The early morning was stupendous, with almost full sunshine for a couple of hours before the clouds and fog began rapidly developing. That led to a few periods of light to moderate rain showers during the afternoon which were interspersed with a few random peeks of sun. And then of course the sun broke out more aggressively again this evening, so there's been plenty of 'back-and-forth' action today.
Total rainfall for the month of August now stands at 34.7" (88.1cm) -- and that's about one inch shy of the average/normal amount for the entire month. I really thought we'd reach that monthly normal by now, but apart from the last 48 hours or so, the past week has been on the drier side in comparison to the previous 15-16 days.
The week ahead is looking fairly decent for this time of year, as the deepest and juiciest tropical moisture hangs well to our southeast. A turn to a more west-northwesterly flow in the mid- and upper-levels of the atmosphere won't scour out all of our moisture, but it will dry out those higher layers enough to provide us with some occasional bright and sunny periods. We will also still have to contend with a good chance of some rain/thunder development on a daily basis -- but that's normal for the last week of August.
There is no really impressive resurgence of the kind of deep tropical moisture we dealt with between late July and the middle of August showing up on the extended range charts... so we may be in for tolerable late monsoon season conditions during the coming couple of weeks. Check out tabs above for rainfall info and THE 7-DAY OUTLOOK.
