Tuesday, July 29, 2014

one of the big ones... (am.29.jul.14)>

*Update @ 8:45am... I've got an additional 0.74" (1.9cm) since 6:30am, with moderate rain in progress.  That ups the total since 9:00pm last night to 5.51" (14.0cm).

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The rain event we've been experiencing since late last evening will probably go down as one of the largest and most memorable of Monsoon 2014.  I've recorded 4.77" (12.1cm) since I updated yesterday's rainfall total at 9:00pm, and it is still raining moderately at the moment.  Of course I was sleeping, or trying to, but it seemed that we had continuous moderate to heavy rain all night long, and the amount in the rain gauge definitely confirms that.  The low temp at my location here in the upper part of town was 63.5F (17.5C), and the current humidity reading is 98%.

When there is so much latent moisture in the air, just hanging around and waiting for the slightest excuse to be wrung out of the atmosphere, it takes only the most subtle reorientation of the mid- and upper-level wind pattern to trigger something like what we've been experiencing the past 10 hours or so.  The view from the satellite perspective is not even that impressive-looking this morning -- compared to how it looked this time yesterday morning -- but the right thermodynamic ingredients are parked right on top of us, and could remain here for the next few hours.  The gullies and nullahs are running quite heavily this morning, from what I can see, so please take it easy and be careful and cautious and aware if you plan to be traveling today.

There is no significant retreat of deep monsoon moisture/conditions indicated by any of the weather data as we finish off July and begin the month of August, so it appears our daily doses of rain (of varying amounts), clouds and occasional fog will continue on...

CURRENT FORECAST details and UPDATED RAINFALL TALLY info can be found on tabs above.