Monday, June 2, 2014

nearly perfect... (pm.02.jun.14)>

Monday's stats:

Low temp: 63.1F (17.3C)
High temp: 80.2F (26.8C)
Rainfall: none

A picture perfect evening is in progress, with almost totally clear skies as sunset approaches.  We've enjoyed a radical and dramatic recovery from our inclement Sunday, with lots of sunshine and temperatures which rose back above 80F.  There was a bit of cumulus cloud development over the mountains between late morning and mid-afternoon, but it never really got going to develop into anything remotely threatening.

The weather charts, both in the near term and the long term, are looking more consistently quiet than they have in recent memory.  The flow in the upper-levels of the atmosphere will be from the west-northwest all the way through this week, as the average moisture content of the air mass over northern India decreases.  This should provide us with lots of sunshine and only occasional cloudiness, along with temperatures which will easily rise higher than they have this entire spring/summer season as we move into the middle and latter parts of the week.  Still, we're not talking about anything excessively hot for this time of year -- just in the neighborhood of normal/average.

The wild card is always the off-chance of some isolated thundershower development over the mountains during the PM hours.  We can't totally discount that possibility on any given afternoon, but overall, this weather pattern should be just about as quiet and uneventful as it ever gets around here...

CURRENT FORECAST details are available on the tab above.