Thursday's stats:
Low temp: 58.1F (14.5C)
High temp: 67.6F (19.8C) -- updated @ 840pm
Rainfall: 0.14" (4mm)
This beautiful evening is quite a gift, considering what we have been through the vast majority of the time during the past six days. It is partly cloudy and pleasantly cool during this hour before sunset, with much drier air in place across our area. The morning was not great... lots of clouds were still hanging around, along with several periods of very light showers, sprinkles/drizzle... which didn't really break up until the early afternoon. For the third day in a row, temperatures have failed to reach 70ºF/21ºC.
An expansive pool of unseasonably cool air aloft drifting in from the north-northwest, crashing into the first major push of tropical moisture advancing from the south-southeast has been the main driver of our extremely wet weather since last Saturday. But that combination of factors is just now starting to fall apart, as much warmer air in the upper atmosphere begins to push in from the west, while the deeper moisture retreats back to the south for a few days. That should set us up for some better weather as we head into the weekend, and depending on which set of computer model data is to be believed, this relatively drier and calmer and more pleasant weather could last until about Sunday at the earliest, or Tuesday evening at the latest. That's when we will see another aggressive surge of juicy tropical air heading in our direction.
Temps will probably rebound nicely on Friday and Saturday, as long as we don't get too much cloud development to spoil the show.
Low temp: 58.1F (14.5C)
High temp: 67.6F (19.8C) -- updated @ 840pm
Rainfall: 0.14" (4mm)
This beautiful evening is quite a gift, considering what we have been through the vast majority of the time during the past six days. It is partly cloudy and pleasantly cool during this hour before sunset, with much drier air in place across our area. The morning was not great... lots of clouds were still hanging around, along with several periods of very light showers, sprinkles/drizzle... which didn't really break up until the early afternoon. For the third day in a row, temperatures have failed to reach 70ºF/21ºC.
An expansive pool of unseasonably cool air aloft drifting in from the north-northwest, crashing into the first major push of tropical moisture advancing from the south-southeast has been the main driver of our extremely wet weather since last Saturday. But that combination of factors is just now starting to fall apart, as much warmer air in the upper atmosphere begins to push in from the west, while the deeper moisture retreats back to the south for a few days. That should set us up for some better weather as we head into the weekend, and depending on which set of computer model data is to be believed, this relatively drier and calmer and more pleasant weather could last until about Sunday at the earliest, or Tuesday evening at the latest. That's when we will see another aggressive surge of juicy tropical air heading in our direction.
Temps will probably rebound nicely on Friday and Saturday, as long as we don't get too much cloud development to spoil the show.
