It looks nothing like a typical late June evening... we have mostly sunny skies, and warmer than normal temps in progress. Humidity has been moderately high all day (in the 50% range), and I recorded a high temp of 85.6F (29.8C). Today has been the first day since last Wednesday (20th June) without so much as a single drop of rain.
Isolated thundershowers did develop further up in the mountains during the early to mid-afternoon hours, but failed to gain much momentum, dissipating for the most part by about 4:00pm. This is an indication that our regularly unstable air mass of the past several days is becoming more stable -- mostly due to the resurgence of warmer air aloft. Although there could still be a period of pre-monsoon thundershowers from time to time, it looks like we're heading into a stretch of somewhat drier and noticeably warmer weather starting this weekend, and progressing into early next week.
We've already passed the day of the "average" arrival of the monsoon season in the Dharamsala area (27th June) -- so, like the rest of India, we are going to have a delayed start this year. Current data points to a major advance of monsoon conditions into northern India by this time next week. As usual, stay tuned!
Isolated thundershowers did develop further up in the mountains during the early to mid-afternoon hours, but failed to gain much momentum, dissipating for the most part by about 4:00pm. This is an indication that our regularly unstable air mass of the past several days is becoming more stable -- mostly due to the resurgence of warmer air aloft. Although there could still be a period of pre-monsoon thundershowers from time to time, it looks like we're heading into a stretch of somewhat drier and noticeably warmer weather starting this weekend, and progressing into early next week.
We've already passed the day of the "average" arrival of the monsoon season in the Dharamsala area (27th June) -- so, like the rest of India, we are going to have a delayed start this year. Current data points to a major advance of monsoon conditions into northern India by this time next week. As usual, stay tuned!
THURSDAY NIGHT:
clear to partly cloudy and rather muggy... but a chance of a round of thundershowers late.
low: 21C (70F)
FRIDAY:
a mix of clouds and sun... a thundershower possible. very warm.
high: 29C (84F)
FRIDAY NIGHT:
an early evening thundershower? otherwise clear to partly cloudy and quite warm.
low: 22C (72F)
SATURDAY:
sunny to partly cloudy and unseasonably warm. a PM thundershower?
high: 30C (86F)
SUNDAY:
sunshine and a few clouds. very warm for the start of JULY. an isolated PM thundershower?
morning low: 23C (73F)
daytime high: 30C (86F)
MONDAY:
hazy sun and a few clouds... still much warmer than normal.
morning low: 23C (74F)
daytime high: 31C (87F)
TUESDAY:
a mix of hazy sun and some clouds. very warm, with humidity increasing again by PM.
morning low: 23C (74F)
daytime high: 30C (86F)
