Friday, June 6, 2014

90F on the cards... (am.06.jun.14)>

This Friday morning features full sunshine and very summery temperatures -- even at this early hour.  I'm recording an overnight low of 72.1F (22.3C) here in the upper part of town, and there has been no precipitation.  The current humidity reading is 32%.

We've now had four days in a row of mostly sunny skies and temperatures which have been steadily on the rise.  And it looks like this classic summertime air mass which is sprawled from the Persian Gulf into central and northern India may be able to warm even further during the next day or two.  I'm expecting my thermometer to get very close to 90F/32C this afternoon -- for the first time this season and year.  These borderline HOT temps may peak soon, but there isn't much evidence of significant cooling all the way through next week, to be honest.

Afternoon instability has remained minimal during the past several days, keeping cumulus cloud development over the Dhauladhars from getting out of control.  A couple of the computer models are showing a slightly better chance of some isolated afternoon thundershower development somewhere in our vicinity over the weekend -- but I'm sure we'd agree that a little bit of rain wouldn't be such a bad thing after this recent stretch of sunshine and heat.

CURRENT FORECAST details are available on the tab above.