Thursday, January 24, 2019

mid-winter elements... (pm.24.jan.19)>

Thursday's stats:

Low temp: 35.8ºF (2.1ºC)
High temp: 43.8ºF (6.6ºC)
Precipitation: none

The upper-level low pressure circulation center which spawned our heavy rain/snow earlier this week is not dead and gone just yet.  It is still sitting and spinning over northern Pakistan, and still drawing what remaining moisture is available northward and up against the Dhauladhars.  This is what has kept a lot of cloudiness around today, and has even led to more random rain and snow showers scattered around the area during the last 24 hours -- though I've recorded no precipitation here at my location since late last evening.

The coldest air mass of this winter season is still hanging around as well, and will team up with our dying upper-level system to keep a few rain and/or snow showers in our forecast through tomorrow (Fri) night or very early Saturday morning.

It looks like our atmosphere will gradually stabilize, finally, over the course of the weekend into early next week, bringing us a better percentage of sunshineTemperatures will start to moderate by Sunday, but maybe not by much.  And then... yet another storm system could be organizing by late Wednesday into Thursday of next week.

Forecast details can be found on THE 7-DAY OUTLOOK tab, above.