Tuesday, March 25, 2014

not totally settled... (pm.25.mar.14)>

Tuesday's stats:

Low temp: 46.2F (7.9C)
High temp: 61.1F (16.2C)
Rainfall since midnight: 0.22" (6mm)
Rainfall since Sunday night: 1.87" (4.7cm)

Clouds have been thickening up again late this afternoon and now during the evening, otherwise we've been able to enjoy a lot of sunshine today.  Rain showers before sunrise never redeveloped anywhere below the high mountain peaks, and even the patches of clouds during the early morning quickly dissipated.  It turned out to be a very nice day after a couple of rather gloomy ones -- with temperatures quickly bouncing back as well.

Unfortunately, we're not really going to see a dramatic turn to a quiet and stable weather pattern over the course of the coming several days.  There's even a bit of thundershower development showing up on satellite pics just to our west-southwest this evening, which could hold together and move across our area later tonight.  A stubborn low pressure circulation continues to spin around over Turkmenistan (yes, it is still there), and will keep a west-southwesterly flow embedded with occasional disturbances running across northern India all the way into the early part of the weekend.  We'll have some sunshine at times, but also periods of cloudiness and at least a slight chance of a couple of random showers and/or thundershowers both tomorrow and Thursday.  The rain risk could increase even further from late Thursday night into early Saturday -- so we'll have to keep an eye on that.

There are a few hints of some kind of a positive shift in the weather pattern starting on Sunday, and especially after April arrives early next week.  It is way too early to get very excited about that --but if it turns out to be for real, we should see a rather significant jump in temperatures along with diminishing chances of rain.

CURRENT FORECAST info can be found on the tab above.