Monday, June 29, 2015

moisture is returning... (am.29.jun.15)>

It's looking quite murky out there this morning, with partly to mostly cloudy skies and some haze.  The current humidity reading is 66%, and the temperature is near the overnight low of 68.0F (20.0C).  There has been no precipitation to report.

Our air mass is "juicing up" again, as tropical moisture begins to ooze back in from the south and southeast.  The upper-level pattern is starting to look more like it should as we get into the monsoon season, with relatively warm air aloft, and a very light and lazy flow.  We've had very little rain since Thursday morning, but it still looks like this new week will be a different story.  Already last night thundershowers developed as close to us as southeast Himachal Pradesh and western Uttarakhand, and scattered shower/thunder development could occur any time of the day or night across most of Himalayan north India each 24-hour period all the way into the weekend.  There's no indication of a feature that would clear our this latest surge of tropical moisture once it gets entrenched, so there will probably be more cloudiness than we've seen the last few days, as well as a better chance of some episodes of fog.

There won't be very dramatic movement of the thermometer this week, with temperatures generally hovering between 64º-80ºF (18º-27ºC) -- and that's another part of the character of monsoon season that is actually quite easy to deal with.

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