Wednesday, July 31, 2013

goodbye july... (pm.31.jul.13)>

*Update @ 8:58pm... I've got steady moderate rain falling at the moment.  Total for the day is now 0.32" (8mm), which is really nothing special, considering the season.  However, if this rain continues all night, we could have some hefty totals to mark our transition from July to August.

*Update @ 7:46pm... It seems that we have some genuinely significant development happening during the past half hour or so.  The occasional light showers of the afternoon have been recently morphing into some much heavier downpours, with a bit of thunder as well.  I'll be updating this evening as we watch to see if this might continue on, or fizzle out.

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Wednesday's stats:

Low temp: 66.7F (19.3C)
High temp: 76.6F (24.8C)
Rainfall: 0.18" (5mm) -- update to follow

Clouds, fog and scattered mainly light showers are alternating with peeks of sun across the area this evening.  We had a few hours of full sunshine which lasted until around 10am, when clouds and fog very rapidly developed, leading to off-and-on showers since just before 1pm.  But -- as has been the case for the last week to 10 days -- the rain has been on the light side, and amounts in the rain gauge have been well below what we would expect this time of year.  The humidity reading at my location dipped as low as 70% this morning, which is a rarity during the monsoon season.

Our recent situation is evidence that it is not always a good idea to make generalizations about the weather in McLeod.  Many people would never be caught dead here during monsoon, but this morning was about as bright and gorgeous as it gets around here, and temperatures have been very comfortable.  Although we've been lamenting the fact that we're going to end up well below the normal rainfall for the month of July, there have definitely been an above normal number of genuinely pleasant hours this month, and the drying of laundry hasn't been quite the impossible task that it often is.

There only has to be a very slight shift in wind direction throughout just a few of the multiple layers of the atmosphere to put us back in the target-zone for heavy rainfall development here along the front slopes of the Dhauladhars.  Computer models STILL say it will be happening, effective immediately, so we'll continue to watch and wait...

Check the CURRENT FORECAST on the tab at the top of the page.