There's another 0.63" (1.6cm) in the rain gauge as of 6:20am this Sunday morning. That's not very much in comparison to the huge amounts we received on Saturday morning, but it pushes us well above 13 inches for the month of August, which is just entering its ninth day. It's cloudy and moderately foggy early this morning, with just a few sprinkles of light rain happening at the moment. I'm recording an overnight low of 64.6F (18.1C).
The latest satellite pics show an area of rain and thunder developing just to our west-southwest which could continue developing and expanding into our area this morning. I'm becoming less and less optimistic about any kind of significant push of drier air making its way into Himachal -- though some of the computer model data is still hinting at a decrease in the moisture content of our air mass during the first few days of this new week. Perhaps the best we can hope for is a little less fog, and perhaps a couple of peeks of sunshine at some point between this afternoon and Wednesday. But if it does brighten up a little bit, it won't last for long.
We've been in a very active phase of this year's monsoon ever since about the 29th of July, and I don't see a major shift away from that during this coming week. Last year we had a major break in the action for about 10-12 days during the latter half of August before things cranked up again -- let's see how August 2015 plays out.
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The latest satellite pics show an area of rain and thunder developing just to our west-southwest which could continue developing and expanding into our area this morning. I'm becoming less and less optimistic about any kind of significant push of drier air making its way into Himachal -- though some of the computer model data is still hinting at a decrease in the moisture content of our air mass during the first few days of this new week. Perhaps the best we can hope for is a little less fog, and perhaps a couple of peeks of sunshine at some point between this afternoon and Wednesday. But if it does brighten up a little bit, it won't last for long.
We've been in a very active phase of this year's monsoon ever since about the 29th of July, and I don't see a major shift away from that during this coming week. Last year we had a major break in the action for about 10-12 days during the latter half of August before things cranked up again -- let's see how August 2015 plays out.
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