Saturday's stats:
Low temp: 52.0F (11.1C)
High temp: 61.0F (16.1C)
Rainfall: none
With no exaggeration, I have to say that this evening's sunset was one of the most stunning I have seen this year. With the layer of high clouds to the west, and the inversion layer in the lowest levels and in the valleys, there were some spectacular colors for about 20 minutes or so -- red, purple, pink, orange, yellow, green, and every combination of the above. We managed to hold on to a lot of sunshine today, despite the occasional waves of high cloudiness and some light haze mainly during the afternoon hours. I recorded a high temp above 60F again, after a respite of a couple of days.
An intense upper-level circulation/disturbance remains well to our west, and has lifted northeast into western Turkmenistan since this morning. We're on the outer fringes of this system, and that's why we've seen the high cloudiness drifting in from the west. The high pressure ridge in place across northwest India is strong and stubborn, and will not allow that disturbance to get any closer to us than it is already... so it will weaken and die out altogether as it drifts north-northeastward during the next 24-36 hours or so.
Thanks to that high pressure ridge, our temperatures are running above normal for this time of year yet again -- and it looks like we'll stay generally on the mild side at least into the middle of next week. The upper-level flow will start to flatten out, leaving us with an uneventful pattern which could take us all the way until the end of the month.
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