Tuesday, August 13, 2013

tropical soup... (am.13.aug.13)>

*Update @ 3:07pm... Some heavier and longer-lasting rain developed around the noon hour, and continues on.  I've recorded 1.80" (4.6cm) since the first light showers started up around 11:30am.  

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We've had a respectable amount of rain in the past 24 hours, but it has come in mainly light doses, so it hasn't seemed like very much.  I've recorded 0.32" (8mm) overnight, which brings the total since this time yesterday morning up to 0.83" (2.1cm).  It's nothing excessive at all, by mid-August standards, but it's keeping us on our way to what could end up being a wetter than normal month.

Our sky was absolutely clear for an hour or two late last evening, but with all the moisture in the air, fog, cloudiness and showers erupted again.  It's mostly cloudy at sunrise with some patchy fog in the area, along with 100% humidity.  My early morning temperature is holding at about 65F (18C).

I'm really running out of words to describe our weather situation, and I get bored repeating the same things over and over again -- and you probably get bored reading it.  It's a tropical soup we're in, with occasional waves of energy drifting by in the mid- and upper-levels of the atmosphere.  Rain showers will continue to be a near constant threat, with bursts of heavier rain possible as well.  Computer models have been totally inconsistent with nailing down the heavy rain potential, and are swinging wildly with each run of data.  Just be prepared for typical monsoon downpours, which I think we're all accustomed to by now anyway...

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