Thursday's stats:
Low temp: 57.2F (14.0C) -- at 2:00pm during thundershowers/hail
High temp: 75.8F (24.3C)
Rainfall: 0.67" (1.7cm)
It's an incredibly beautiful evening... with mostly clear skies, really good visibility, humidity around 40%, and the temperature hovering close to 72ºF/22ºC. The morning was fantastic as well, but in the middle, we had quite a rough patch to deal with. Clouds were actually on the increase by about 10:00am, and it started to look threatening shortly after noon. Then the wind, thunder, rain showers and even some spotty small hailstones appeared, which lasted off and on for a couple of hours between 1:00 and 3:00pm or so. Although the rainfall amount for the day was significant enough, it wasn't as big of a downpour as we often begin to see by the first week or so of June.
The pattern we're in now is the pattern we'll stay in for the coming week to ten days or so. That means there will be plenty of bright and pleasantly warm weather, but also the looming threat of showers and thunderstorms. Most of the storminess/wetness should occur during the afternoon or early evening hours, but there is a chance of some overnight development as well -- so keep that in mind. A northwesterly flow aloft transporting little waves/pockets of cooler air into Himalayan north India, overrunning a warmer and moderately moist airmass in the surface layers is the meteorological scenario.
The northern extent of this year's monsoon has now reached a line from Goa to just north of Chennai, with further northward progress expected during the coming several days. At least as of now, all of that is pretty close to the normal schedule of advance...
Low temp: 57.2F (14.0C) -- at 2:00pm during thundershowers/hail
High temp: 75.8F (24.3C)
Rainfall: 0.67" (1.7cm)
It's an incredibly beautiful evening... with mostly clear skies, really good visibility, humidity around 40%, and the temperature hovering close to 72ºF/22ºC. The morning was fantastic as well, but in the middle, we had quite a rough patch to deal with. Clouds were actually on the increase by about 10:00am, and it started to look threatening shortly after noon. Then the wind, thunder, rain showers and even some spotty small hailstones appeared, which lasted off and on for a couple of hours between 1:00 and 3:00pm or so. Although the rainfall amount for the day was significant enough, it wasn't as big of a downpour as we often begin to see by the first week or so of June.
The pattern we're in now is the pattern we'll stay in for the coming week to ten days or so. That means there will be plenty of bright and pleasantly warm weather, but also the looming threat of showers and thunderstorms. Most of the storminess/wetness should occur during the afternoon or early evening hours, but there is a chance of some overnight development as well -- so keep that in mind. A northwesterly flow aloft transporting little waves/pockets of cooler air into Himalayan north India, overrunning a warmer and moderately moist airmass in the surface layers is the meteorological scenario.
The northern extent of this year's monsoon has now reached a line from Goa to just north of Chennai, with further northward progress expected during the coming several days. At least as of now, all of that is pretty close to the normal schedule of advance...
