Wednesday, December 20, 2017

temporarily unstable... (pm.20.dec.17)>

Our atmosphere has been in a destabilization phase today... but so far that has only triggered some random cloud development in our immediate area.  There are a few scattered showers west and northwest of us, showing up on satellite pics this evening, but it would be hard to classify this as a significant storm system.

This moderately disturbed atmosphere could bring us a fleeting period or two of (light) showers between tonight and very early Friday morning, along with occasional cloudiness.  And, with a colder air mass moving in aloft, we might see some kind of isolated shower activity somewhere in our area this weekend.  But even with this bit of instability, our overall weather situation is looking really mild and mellow as we close out the final ten days of December, and 2017.

There are hints of another run at unseasonably warm temps during the final week of the month/year... so we'll watch that.