Saturday, June 27, 2015

a stable stretch... (pm.27.jun.15)>

Saturday's stats:

Low temp: 62.4F (16.9C)
High temp: 79.8F (26.6C)
Rainfall: none

It's hazy with a few dissipating clouds over the Dhauladhars this evening, otherwise we could call it mostly clear.  If there is no rain before midnight, and it doesn't look like there will be, today will end up being only the fifth totally dry day this June.  It was also the warmest day since Friday the 19th.  We did see the expected cloud development in the vicinity of the mountains which began by mid-morning, but there has also been plenty of sunshine.  Humidity has hovered very near 55% all day -- which is in the moderate range -- but not nearly as high as it could be this time of year.

A huge, strong ridge of high pressure extends from Saudi Arabia into Pakistan, creating severe heatwave conditions over much of that region.  This high pressure ridge is trying to poke its way into northwest India, and has been marginally successful -- at least significantly warming up the air mass in the middle and upper layers of the atmosphere.  This has contributed to our general stability of the last couple of days, and should give us another day with only slight chances of shower/thunder development.  There will be a fresh surge of tropical moisture creeping in from the southeast by Sunday night and Monday, however, which will cause our humidity to rise, and also give us an increasingly better chance of periods of showers and thundershowers during much of next week.  Tomorrow could be even a degree or two warmer than today... before things start to cool off again in response to that influx of moisture.

Just for the record -- with only three days remaining in the month of June, I've recorded 8.38" (21.3cm) of rain.  That's already slightly above normal for the month.

Check THE 7-DAY OUTLOOK tab above for forecast specifics.