Clouds and wind without rain
Jun. 29th, 2009 09:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ellarienUntil a couple of years ago, the official definition of the start of the local "monsoon" was that the dewpoint stayed above 55F for three days in a row. The new definition is "July and August," I believe (Edit: June 15 to September 30), which is simpler to identify but not very informative.
Well, we've had our three days of 50-degree dewpoint, and some cloud build-up in the afternoons and even a few drops of rain. What we haven't had is an actual storm, so far. This afternoon there was a storm warning out, but it didn't come to anything but cloud and wind. The wind was quite impressive when I was on my way home, thrashing the trees about and whipping up the dust and thrumming in the overhead wires, but there hasn't been so much as a rumble or a flicker, let alone the pounding rain and hail that usually herald the breaking monsoon.
The temperature did drop by the best part of twenty degrees in about an hour, though, which suggests either a front moving in or some rain somewhere nearby.
Well, we've had our three days of 50-degree dewpoint, and some cloud build-up in the afternoons and even a few drops of rain. What we haven't had is an actual storm, so far. This afternoon there was a storm warning out, but it didn't come to anything but cloud and wind. The wind was quite impressive when I was on my way home, thrashing the trees about and whipping up the dust and thrumming in the overhead wires, but there hasn't been so much as a rumble or a flicker, let alone the pounding rain and hail that usually herald the breaking monsoon.
The temperature did drop by the best part of twenty degrees in about an hour, though, which suggests either a front moving in or some rain somewhere nearby.
