Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Memorial Day Weekend Looking Cloudy & Showery

I'm sorry to have to report that it appears increasingly likely that the upcoming extended holiday weekend is likely to feature an (over)-abundance of clouds accompanied by periods of showers and thunderstorms. A fairly typical mid-summer "monsoonal" pattern will set up over the desert southwest, sending plenty of moisture our way and keeping temperatures at slightly below normal levels.

While it won't be a total washout -- i.e., raining all the time -- mostly cloudy to overcast skies will prevail from Thursday all the way through Memorial Day Monday.

2 comments:

bwyman said...

w00t!

Oh, I mean, drat. That sounds awful for the Denver area.

Josh Larson said...

@bwyman Luckily, there was enough moisture in April in the immediate Denver metro area to allow us to improve from D1 "moderate drought" conditions to normal conditions (http://drought.unl.edu/DM/12_week.gif), though areas to the SE of Denver are still running on the dry side...