Wednesday, October 2, 2013

no lasting changes... (am.02.oct.13)>

It's looking beautiful early this morning as the sun's rays appear over the top of the Dhauladhars.  Currently, the sky is mostly clear, with a temperature of 61F (16C) here in the upper part of town, and a humidity reading of 82%.  There was no rainfall overnight, and only a trace of rain during the past 24 hours, thanks to a few random sprinkles on Tuesday.

Once again we are getting teased with some nicer weather, only to have our hopes dashed in a matter of hours.  Our overall weather pattern hasn't changed, and won't be changing much in the next several days.  We still have an unusually moist air mass sprawled across virtually all of northern India -- we still have an upper-level pattern that will prevent us from tasting a nice surge of drier air capable of displacing this moist air -- and we still have some minor disturbances drifting through which could trigger some shower and thundershower development at any time of the day or night.  That means we'll continue to see lots of flipping and flopping between sun, clouds and patches of fog, and humidity hard-pressed to drop below about 65-70% -- all the way into the weekend.

The shower and thundershower action the last few days has been very scattered and spotty, with some areas picking up very little, while other places get dumped on.  The average rainfall for the entire month of October is just 2.6" (6.6cm), so if this pattern doesn't change very soon, it won't be difficult at all to surpass the monthly average in a matter of a few days.  Stay tuned.

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