Saturday, January 27, 2018

very little action... (pm.27.jan.18)>

With just over four days left of January 2018, we've had only about five hours of accumulating precipitation to log into the weather stats -- occurring back on Tuesday afternoon and evening.  That's pretty pathetic.  Yes, as far as comfort and convenience is concerned, it has been a very pleasant month -- but considering the fact that mid-winter rain and snowfall is vitally important around here, it has not been good news.

Afternoon cloud/fog development has eased off the last day or two, as a brisk west-northwesterly flow aloft gradually erodes the latent moisture which had been lingering in the wake of Tuesday's precipitation event.  But a fresh upper-level disturbance organizing  over central Asia will bring us some waves of high cloudiness during the coming several days... though rain/snow chances look like they will be best in the higher elevations to our north between late Monday and early Wednesday.  Meanwhile, our general temperature trend will be upward...