Monday's stats:
Low temp: 75.4F (24.1C)
High temp: 90.6F (32.6C)
Rainfall: none
There are a few patchy mid-level clouds around the area at sunset, otherwise we have mostly clear skies. Despite the clumps of clouds here and there, it has been a mostly sunny Monday, with a high temperature that has again surpassed the previous warmest of the season and the year. It finally went above 90F at my location on Tushita Road in the upper part of town -- and that is something that happens only a couple of times each year, if at all. Today has also been the eighth day in a row without even a trace of rain.
A remarkably hot air mass remains sprawled across most of northern India, keeping temperatures a bit above normal for this, the hottest time of the year on average. In fact, you may have heard that it has been in the 46-48C (115-118F) range in Delhi the last couple of days -- with temps at a couple of recording stations reaching 60 year highs. Our heat here hasn't been that dramatic, but this has definitely been a noteworthy streak. And... it doesn't look like it's going to relent anytime soon.
Any kind of significant cooling trend is probably not going to kick in until we start getting our first waves of pre-monsoon moisture, cloudiness, and thunderstorms -- and at this point that doesn't look likely until perhaps the middle of next week at the earliest. For a long time this year it had appeared that we might not get much of a summer, but as is often the case, we learn that things can turn radically in a short period of time.
CURRENT FORECAST details and other weather info can be found on tabs above.
Low temp: 75.4F (24.1C)
High temp: 90.6F (32.6C)
Rainfall: none
There are a few patchy mid-level clouds around the area at sunset, otherwise we have mostly clear skies. Despite the clumps of clouds here and there, it has been a mostly sunny Monday, with a high temperature that has again surpassed the previous warmest of the season and the year. It finally went above 90F at my location on Tushita Road in the upper part of town -- and that is something that happens only a couple of times each year, if at all. Today has also been the eighth day in a row without even a trace of rain.
A remarkably hot air mass remains sprawled across most of northern India, keeping temperatures a bit above normal for this, the hottest time of the year on average. In fact, you may have heard that it has been in the 46-48C (115-118F) range in Delhi the last couple of days -- with temps at a couple of recording stations reaching 60 year highs. Our heat here hasn't been that dramatic, but this has definitely been a noteworthy streak. And... it doesn't look like it's going to relent anytime soon.
Any kind of significant cooling trend is probably not going to kick in until we start getting our first waves of pre-monsoon moisture, cloudiness, and thunderstorms -- and at this point that doesn't look likely until perhaps the middle of next week at the earliest. For a long time this year it had appeared that we might not get much of a summer, but as is often the case, we learn that things can turn radically in a short period of time.
CURRENT FORECAST details and other weather info can be found on tabs above.
