Wednesday, May 15, 2013

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Looking just about perfect out there early on this Wednesday morning, with crystal clear skies and humidity at 47%.  I'm recording an overnight low temp of 61.7F (16.5C), and there has been no rainfall since the trace amounts we received late yesterday morning.

This transition period is lasting a little longer than expected, as a northwesterly flow aloft threatens to bring at least one more weak upper-level disturbance through the area during the next 24 hours or so.  There's no evidence of any cloud or shower development right now, but the risk of a random/isolated shower or thundershower can't be completely ruled out today into Thursday.  Otherwise, expect a good amount of sunshine as temps climb up from the unseasonably cool levels we've been dealing with since the weekend.

We've been talking for a few days now about a massive high pressure ridge building into north India -- and it is still definitely on the way.  In fact, each run of the computer models is showing a more and more impressive bubble of extremely warm air; even heat wave conditions for areas downhill from us and on the plains.  Temperatures will be well beyond the previous warmest/hottest of the year across a vast area of north India starting on Friday, and continuing into early next week.  I'm expecting it to get very close to 90F (32C) at my location here at the top of McLeod, which usually happens only a couple of times per year.

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