Friday, June 26, 2015

pleasant for the season... (pm.26.jun.15)>

Friday's stats:

Low temp: 61.0F (16.1C)
High temp: 76.1F (24.5C)
Rainfall: 0.03" (1mm)

Other than a few clouds lingering along the mountains, it's mostly clear as the sun goes down this Friday evening.  Our full sunshine early this morning was followed by a rapid build-up of clouds by late morning, and then a short period of thundershowers between about 1:00 and 1:40pm or so.  The rainfall at my location in the upper part of town was very minor, but there could have been some heavier amounts in isolated areas.  The high temperature today was a little cooler than normal for the season, with humidity hovering in the 50-55% range.

Although this is now officially the monsoon season, it's pretty much 'monsoon in name only' -- as our daily average humidity remains way too low for true monsoon conditions to be sustained.  The deeper tropical moisture which briefly surged into our area on Wednesday into Thursday has since retreated, obviously, leaving us with generally pleasant conditions for the end of June.  And things are still looking remarkably good as we head into the weekend.  A major push of warmer air throughout all layers of the atmosphere will move in from the west, and that warmer air aloft should provide us with stable conditions except for perhaps a few hours of instability over the mountains during the afternoon hours.  That means that in addition to the sun/cloud mix, we have to remember the potential for a flare-up of thundershowers somewhere along the Dhauladhars during the PM hours, both Saturday and Sunday.  Temperatures will continue their climb.

A tongue of tropical moisture will creep in from the southeast starting Sunday night into Monday, and that should give us an increasing chance of more significant rain and thunder action as next week unfolds.  We're still waiting for our first authentic episode of saturated conditons and fog, which is the real indication that the monsoon is settling in.

Take a look at forecast details on THE 7-DAY OUTLOOK tab above.