Monday's stats:
Low temp: 57.7F (14.3C)
High temp: 70.7F (21.5C)
Rainfall: 1.60" (4.1cm) --updated at 8:25pm
We have a pleasantly beautiful evening in progress, with only some scattered clouds leftover from our spells of moderate to heavy thundershowers this afternoon and early evening. Once again there was major variability between clouds and sun throughout the day, with a few short periods of fog as well. But the big event was the heavy downpours accompanied by almost constant thunder which got started just before 2:30pm and finally stopped between 5:45 and 6:00pm. The heaviest rain was between 3:00 and 4:00pm (see stats above) -- more than I've recorded in a 24 hour period in the past nine days. And by the way -- our low temp occurred during the heaviest rain, and was the coolest since the 25th of June!
Today's afternoon thundershower development was a classic example of what we get to deal with here along the front slopes of the Dhauladhars during the final several weeks of the official monsoon season. Although our average daily humidity levels have dropped from near 95% to about 75-80% in the last few days, that's still high enough to fuel isolated to scattered thundershower development after a few hours of sunshine-induced surface heating. The computer models are showing very little rainfall in our area both tomorrow (Tues) and Wednesday, but we're still going to have to brace ourselves for a good chance of more of this rain/thunder action during the PM hours.
SO... although we're not at all out of the woods with regard to occasional moderate to heavy downpours of rain, it is nice that our humidity has trended downward, and we're getting to enjoy at least a couple of hours of sunshine each and every day. As you know if you've spent many monsoon seasons around here, it is always a slow and tedious process before we completely transition into the autumn season...
THE 7-DAY OUTLOOK and monsoon rainfall information can be found on tabs at the top of the page.
Low temp: 57.7F (14.3C)
High temp: 70.7F (21.5C)
Rainfall: 1.60" (4.1cm) --updated at 8:25pm
We have a pleasantly beautiful evening in progress, with only some scattered clouds leftover from our spells of moderate to heavy thundershowers this afternoon and early evening. Once again there was major variability between clouds and sun throughout the day, with a few short periods of fog as well. But the big event was the heavy downpours accompanied by almost constant thunder which got started just before 2:30pm and finally stopped between 5:45 and 6:00pm. The heaviest rain was between 3:00 and 4:00pm (see stats above) -- more than I've recorded in a 24 hour period in the past nine days. And by the way -- our low temp occurred during the heaviest rain, and was the coolest since the 25th of June!
Today's afternoon thundershower development was a classic example of what we get to deal with here along the front slopes of the Dhauladhars during the final several weeks of the official monsoon season. Although our average daily humidity levels have dropped from near 95% to about 75-80% in the last few days, that's still high enough to fuel isolated to scattered thundershower development after a few hours of sunshine-induced surface heating. The computer models are showing very little rainfall in our area both tomorrow (Tues) and Wednesday, but we're still going to have to brace ourselves for a good chance of more of this rain/thunder action during the PM hours.
SO... although we're not at all out of the woods with regard to occasional moderate to heavy downpours of rain, it is nice that our humidity has trended downward, and we're getting to enjoy at least a couple of hours of sunshine each and every day. As you know if you've spent many monsoon seasons around here, it is always a slow and tedious process before we completely transition into the autumn season...
THE 7-DAY OUTLOOK and monsoon rainfall information can be found on tabs at the top of the page.
