Thursday, May 9, 2013

strong sunshine... (am.09.may.13)>

Sunshine is unhindered early this morning, and temperatures are already on their way up after an overnight low of 65.3F (18.5C).  Humidity has been very steady for the last few days -- remaining very close to 30%.

A big bubble of high pressure continues to dominate the weather pattern across northern India, keeping us high and dry, and providing us with these very summer-like temps.  Yesterday's high of 84.7F (29.3C) was the warmest of the season and the year, and there's a pretty good chance we'll go even a bit higher than that today.  This stable air mass should allow abundant sunshine, but there will likely be some afternoon cumulus build-up over the mountains, though any thundershower development up there will be only very random and isolated.

Most of Friday should be quiet as well, but by late in the day, we'll start to feel the effects of an upper-level system which will be our main weather influencer over the weekend into early next week.  A series of disturbances aloft, along with the arrival of colder air in the upper atmosphere will lead to a better chance of some scattered shower and thunderstorm activity -- with the best potential for rain coming between Friday night and Sunday, the way it looks now.  We'll also lose these very warm temperatures for a few days, with high temps dropping back a bit below normal until perhaps Tuesday of next week.

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