Over the weekend we experienced some nice rain showers – some of which got us almost completely soaked. Over the past few days the atmosphere has been getting more humid at levels near 800 hPa and inversions less well defined. Winds at lower levels have also been less steadily easterly than at the end of last week.
On Saturday, the 21 UTC sounding we launched from the site shows the increase in humidity as compared to the early morning sounding from the airport. The boundary layer, extending up to a weak inversion that starts near 700 hPa (about 3 km), at that time has a relative humidity of about 85 % that is nearly constant with height. Cloud base is near 950 hPa. Just a short time after that we got some nice rain showers near and over the site, some heavier than others. They also nicely got caught by the KIT radar.
