Saturday, November 30, 2013

sun and stars... (pm.30.nov.13)>

Saturday's stats:

Low temp: 51.6F (11.1C)
High temp: 61.2F (16.2C)
24 hr rainfall: none
Total November rainfall: 1.83" (4.6cm)

We have clear, starry skies after sunset this evening, at the end of another sunny day.  The month of November is closing down with nearly perfect weather conditions for this time of year, as humidity remains comfortably low, and temperatures stay a couple of degrees above normal for the season.  Abundant sunshine recently has all but erased the memory of the gloomy cloudiness we experienced for so much of October.  To top it off, the rain gauge has been in retirement now for 22 days in a row.

There is a weather system on the way, however.  A fairly energetic upper-level disturbance will drop in from the west-northwest, and swing across northern India on Monday into Tuesday morning.  A surge of cooler air will accompany it -- from the surface into the upper-levels of the atmosphere -- but there shouldn't be enough moisture to stir up more than just some occasional high cloudiness tomorrow (Sun) into Tuesday.  One computer model is showing some scattered light rain/snow showers over Jammu & Kashmir into parts of Himachal on Monday, but I really doubt we'll see any of that around here.

Looking further ahead, there is nothing even remotely resembling a significant storm system on the horizon -- all the way through the first week of December and beyond.  We should relish this, because it could end up being the longest stretch of dry and sunny weather of the entire year.

The CURRENT FORECAST specifics are on the tab above.