"That, sir, is not a monsoon. As somene who has literally scraped the mildew off oneself due to a monsoon, I can tell you that is not a monsoon."
That, sir, is what almost every meterologist around here (Colorado) calls it. Talk to them.
They also call the hot wind that comes off the mountains due to the jet stream dropping down, the "chinook," although that term seems to be dropping out in the last couple of years. Talk to them.
(Both terms kind of grated with my understanding of them when I first got out here, but I adapted to the regional usage.)
By the way, that graphical display of weather parameters updates almost continuously.
I usually run the window fans all night to draw in cool air to cool all the not-so-obvious thermal masses in the house --couches, books, tables, walls, etc. I bought one of those pistol-grip infra-red (IR) thermometers for about $30 on sale from Harbor Freight and it's instructive to run around the house pointing it at various things to monitor "how much" heat they retain. (Yes, I keep my finger off the trigger until ready to "shoot.")
One thing I discovered is that the hatch to the attic radiates a lot of heat down into the house since it's not insulated. It may read, like, 95° while the ceiling next to it, insulated, shows about 85° --about 10°-15° typical delta.
I found the temperature readings from the pine trees out back are very responsive to cloud cover. It would seem the small thermal masses of the individual pine needles are quick to respond to clouds passing over, and the IR meter covers a considerable area at that distance (~ 15 feet), so it's kind of an average reading of the trees' temperature. It correlates very well with the outdoor remote-reading thermometer I've got on that side of the house except for the time lag.
I don't usually have to turn on the A/C until around one-two o'clock, but a lot of that depends on the cloud cover.
Terry, 230RN
REFS:
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/weather/9459810/detail.htmlhttp://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/9460883/detail.htmlCEN-TECH Model 96451 Infrared Thermometer