*Update @ 8:52pm... Some intense thunderstorm action developed just to our west-northwest this evening, and is now rolling through the area. Our rainfall total for the day has increased substantially... and I'll try to get that updated later tonight.
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Sunday's stats:
Low temp: 57.7F (14.3C) -- at 9:00pm during thunderstorm
High temp: 72.1F (22.3C)
Rainfall: 0.88" (2.2cm) -- total for the day
We have cloudy skies with fog, along with occasional mainly light rain showers just before sunset this evening. Those showers have been occurring on and off since the early afternoon... but it seems that the more significant rain has only materialized during the last couple of hours. Even then, amounts haven't been heavy at all here in the immediate McLeod area. Once again there was some sunshine this morning, but not as much as we've enjoyed the past several days.
We're right in the midst of the normal waning period of the monsoon season, as the best alignment of deep tropical moisture and atmospheric dynamics continues to weaken. There has already been vast improvement in conditions across the plains of northern India, but we've only seen the first and early signs of better things to come here along the mountain slopes. Although computer model data is showing much lower average daily humidity readings (65-80%) and lower average daily rainfall rates during the coming week to ten days or so, our special set of dynamics here along the front slopes of the Dhauladhars will keep us in a vulnerable position. Expect periods of sun to be constantly challenged by extended clouds/foggy spells -- with episodes of rain/thunder still a good bet on any given day.
As I've said numerous times over the years I've been doing this blog -- a lot of patience is demanded of us during the month of September (and sometimes even into the first several days of October) as we wait for the last traces of tropical moisture to get scoured out of here. Check out THE 7-DAY OUTLOOK and monsoon info for both this year and last; available on tabs at the top of this page.
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Sunday's stats:
Low temp: 57.7F (14.3C) -- at 9:00pm during thunderstorm
High temp: 72.1F (22.3C)
Rainfall: 0.88" (2.2cm) -- total for the day
We have cloudy skies with fog, along with occasional mainly light rain showers just before sunset this evening. Those showers have been occurring on and off since the early afternoon... but it seems that the more significant rain has only materialized during the last couple of hours. Even then, amounts haven't been heavy at all here in the immediate McLeod area. Once again there was some sunshine this morning, but not as much as we've enjoyed the past several days.
We're right in the midst of the normal waning period of the monsoon season, as the best alignment of deep tropical moisture and atmospheric dynamics continues to weaken. There has already been vast improvement in conditions across the plains of northern India, but we've only seen the first and early signs of better things to come here along the mountain slopes. Although computer model data is showing much lower average daily humidity readings (65-80%) and lower average daily rainfall rates during the coming week to ten days or so, our special set of dynamics here along the front slopes of the Dhauladhars will keep us in a vulnerable position. Expect periods of sun to be constantly challenged by extended clouds/foggy spells -- with episodes of rain/thunder still a good bet on any given day.
As I've said numerous times over the years I've been doing this blog -- a lot of patience is demanded of us during the month of September (and sometimes even into the first several days of October) as we wait for the last traces of tropical moisture to get scoured out of here. Check out THE 7-DAY OUTLOOK and monsoon info for both this year and last; available on tabs at the top of this page.
