Monday, January 20, 2014

mega-mild monday... (am.20.jan.14)>

There are some thin patches of high clouds dotting the sky at sunrise this morning, otherwise it is mostly clear and quite mild.  I'm recording an overnight low of 44.2F (6.8C), and there has been no precipitation since last report.  The current humidity reading is 35%.

A nice healthy ridge of high pressure is in control across most of northwest India, and is expected to hold on today and into most of Tuesday as well.  There is a bubble of unseasonably mild air in association with it -- extending from the surface into the higher levels of the atmosphere.  Today's high temp may end up being the warmest of the month thus far, which will certainly be welcome after our few bone-chilling days recently.  We'll just have to keep on eye on the patchy high cloudiness, and hope the sunshine retains the upper hand as the day wears on.

Our next upper-level disturbance is now over southeastern Iran, and will be ever-so-slowly making its way toward northern India over the course of the coming 48 hours.  As far as vigorous, dynamic systems go, this is not one of them -- but it will be a slow-mover, and there is expected to be a fairly impressive flow of moisture returning northward ahead of it.  Considering our inability to pick up hardly any significant precipitation this month, i am hesitant to say that this system will be any different.  But at this stage, the data is pointing to a modest amount of rain around here on Wednesday into early Thursday, and snow in the mountains above...  so we get to go through this again and see if we can get luckier this time.

Check the CURRENT FORECAST info on the tab at the top of the page.