Friday, May 16, 2014

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It's picture-perfect out there early this morning, with 100% sunny skies and pleasantly mild temperatures.  My overnight low temperature has been 59.9F (15.5C), and there is no rainfall to report.  Humidity this morning stands at 42%.

We've been in the midst of a steady, consistent and reliable improvement in weather conditions since Wednesday, with increasing amounts of sunshine each day, along with temperatures which have rebounded nicely.  A ridge of high pressure with correspondingly warmer air throughout all layers of the atmosphere continues to build across northern India, and should provide us with a very nice Friday.  Even tomorrow (Sat) is looking fairly good, though we could start to feel the effects of a weak disturbance trying to approach from the west.  This next system still looks like it won't be able to do much other than to stir up a handful of random showers or thundershowers over the weekend, with a good amount of sunshine in between.  If you have plans to be out hiking or trekking or camping, etc., just be prepared for a sudden thundershower -- which is always a good idea here along the Dhauladhars anyway.

The overall pattern for next week will be marginally unstable, with temperatures getting fairly close to normal for the season, but some pockets of cooler air aloft providing the potential for some mainly PM shower/thunder development occasionally.  So far we've been spared of a genuine May heatwave -- and that should remain the case for another week or more...

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