Friday, December 21, 2012

no sign of winter... (pm.21.dec.12)>

Friday's stats:

Early morning low temp: 47.3F (8.5C)
Afternoon high temp: 57.4F (14.1C)
Rainfall: none

Well... the moment of the winter solstice (4:42pm IST) has come and gone, and as far as I can see, there has been no apocalyptic meltdown.  We've had a fantastic late December day, with nearly 100% sunshine and temperatures running well above normal for this time of year.  Our air mass is showing some signs of stagnancy, however, with a bit more haze present, especially just downhill from us here in McLeod.

Although we're now officially into the winter season, according to the calendar, our weather pattern should continue to look more like the end of November this weekend.  Sunshine will remain the dominant weather feature, while temps are expected to warm up even another couple of degrees or so.  We're getting into the range of ridiculously mild for the weekend before Christmas, as last week's heavy snowfall quickly melts up toward Triund and beyond.  There will be a weak disturbance gliding through between Sunday evening and early Tuesday, but at this point it appears that it will do nothing more than bring us an increase in cloudiness and shave temps by just a small margin.

More interesting things are starting to appear on computer model data for the latter part of next week.  That's still very far away, but we could be dealing with a significant winter storm with rain, snow, wind and much colder temperatures exactly one week from now.  Of course there's plenty of time to wait and watch how things evolve...

FRIDAY NIGHT:
clear... rather mild.
low: 9C (48F)

SATURDAY:
another mostly sunny day with above normal temps.
high: 14C (58F)

SATURDAY NIGHT:
fair to partly cloudy and very mild.
low: 9C (49F)

SUNDAY:
sun, along with an increase in clouds.  unseasonably mild.
high: 15C (59F)

MONDAY:
partly cloudy.  cooling down a bit.
morning low: 8C (46F)
daytime high: 13C (55F)

CHRISTMAS DAY:
sunny to partly cloudy.
morning low: 7C (44F)
daytime high: 12C (54F)

WEDNESDAY:
sun and mainly high clouds.
morning low: 8C (46F)
daytime high: 13C (56F)