Wednesday, May 8, 2013

temps stay up... (am.08.may.13)>

A few patches of high clouds are drifting through early this morning, but we're also getting some good glimpses of sun.  It's been a quiet, dry and very mild night -- my low temperature here in the upper part of town was 66.7F (19.3C), which is the warmest I've recorded this year.  Humidity has been very steady lately at around 30%.

High pressure is the dominant weather feature across northern India, providing generally stable and dry conditions, along with the warmest temps of the season thus far.  Typically, the warmest weather of the entire year occurs here in the Dharamsala area between the middle of May and about the third week of June, so the building heat is to be expected.  Keep in mind the off-chance of an isolated thundershower during the next couple of afternoons, mainly in the vicinity of the mountains, otherwise we should be enjoying sunny to partly cloudy skies.

There is a rather significant change in the weather pattern on the way for the weekend, however.  An broad upper-level disturbance will replace the current stable high pressure system over northern India, bringing in unsettled conditions in the form of scattered showers and thunderstorms.  It also looks like we'll cool off a few degrees, before the heat starts to build again early next week.

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