Sunday, June 28, 2015

summer or monsoon?... (pm.28.jun.15)>

Sunday's stats:

Low temp: 66.0F (18.9C)
High temp: 83.4F (28.6C)
Rainfall: none

Our Sunday is coming to an end with partly cloudy and hazy skies, after the expected mix of sunshine and clouds virtually all day long.  Also as expected, today turned out to be the warmest of the past ten days or so, with high temps running a bit above normal/average for the final days of June.  We had zero rainfall, with humidity still stuck in the 50-60% range for the most part.

We've had only sparse amounts of rain since Thursday morning, but this recent dry streak is probably going to be coming to end fairly soon.  We have a ridge of summertime high pressure parked over northwest India which may strengthen even a bit further in the next 24 hours, but also there should be a significant push of tropical moisture approaching from the southeast as we head through tomorrow (Mon) and Tuesday.  Computer models are pretty much unanimous in showing a dramatic increase in the chance of shower and thundershower development starting tomorrow -- with at least a period or two of rain likely each 24-hour period all the way through this new week.  It may finally start to look and feel more like monsoon.

As humidity goes up, clouds and some patchy fog will be more likely as well, leading to a downward trend in temperatures.  But still we're talking about temps in a rather comfortable range, and quite normal as the monsoon season gets going.

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