Monday, March 31, 2014

pleasing performance... (am.31.mar.14)>

Our sky is 100% clear early this morning, just as the sun begins to peek above the mountains.  I'm recording an overnight low of 52.3F (11.3C) which has occurred within the last hour, and there has been no rainfall overnight.  The humidity stands at 45%.

By all indications, we're set up for another very nice day -- and unless there are some surprise developments over the mountains this afternoon, March should go out like a docile lamb.  A feeble high pressure ridge remains sprawled across northern India, with atmospheric temperature profiles which are keeping things relatively stable.  This morning's sunshine will again be threatened by some PM cumulus cloud build-up over the mountains -- but hopefully there won't be anything further than that to worry about.  Tomorrow (Tue) is looking very good also, with our temperatures perhaps rising another couple of degrees for afternoon highs to kick off the month of April.

We'll have to keep our eyes on the next upper-level disturbance, however, which will give us a glancing blow between Wednesday afternoon and Thursday evening.  It's still not looking like a very significant system at this point, but some scattered showers and thundershowers are a good bet as it sweeps by to our north and west.  In its wake, even warmer air is expected to surge in from the southwest over the weekend.

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