Category: Altostratus clouds

Less splotchy; more filling

The clouds yesterday were supposed to be “splotchy”, big clearings between interesting middle clouds like Altocumulus with long virga strands.  Instead there was a vast coverage of Altostratus opacus “dullus” with long streaks of virga, with a few drops reaching the ground here and there but not here.  There was some mammatus-t clouds, too.   Also,… Continue reading Less splotchy; more filling

Tracy day; OK sunset, too

BTW, finally got a “submission” in late yesterday about our neat storm after what was deemed a power outage of some type affecting the hosting service yesterday.  After re-reading it, perhaps I had too much time to think about it… Oh, well, onward. First, from yesterday, a day with occasional sprinkles, dessert:      … Continue reading Tracy day; OK sunset, too

Pretty strong “signal” showing up for April 17th

Wasn’t going to blog, gets boring after a while with only dry conditions ahead, but then saw this and got pretty excited, as you will, too.  Might not need that extra cup of joe to get going today.                                  … Continue reading Pretty strong “signal” showing up for April 17th

“Gray skies, nothing but gray skies, from now on”

Well, at least much of today anyway. The title for today is from Gershwin, of course, and the version of a song he later changed to “Blue Skies” (really old version here)–this was after he moved from New York, an extremely cloudy state, to southern California (“Hollywood”,  in 1936) where weathermen can sleep for six… Continue reading “Gray skies, nothing but gray skies, from now on”

Let’s look at March, now that its already underway; cloud and weather talk, too

First, a water year (Oct-Sept) update.   You won’t like it: One caveat about February’s total: It might be as much as 0.25 inches higher since a good bit of snow during the historic February 20th storm probably did not get into the Davis Vantage Pro gage located some six feet above ground level where… Continue reading Let’s look at March, now that its already underway; cloud and weather talk, too

Harder rain falling now at 4:04 AM; you’re probably not up

I’m not missing any of this.  Its too good.  Supposed to rain off and off until the frontal blast about 10 AM -Noon, then clear up for awhile, then scattered showers develop from what will be icy looking Cumulus and small Cumulonimbus clouds, kind of the usual storm chronology we have here.  This sequence shown… Continue reading Harder rain falling now at 4:04 AM; you’re probably not up

Stratiform clouds bring steady rain and snow; sixteen hundredths to Catalina

“Sixteen hundredths”, originally a song by a boy group of that day so long ago, The Crests, about a light rain that fell in May in southern California, an event that is quite rare and exciting at that time of the year there.   But then practical and marketing considerations caused the song to be… Continue reading Stratiform clouds bring steady rain and snow; sixteen hundredths to Catalina

Sunset color today?

First, yesterday’s interesting clouds: Earlier Today You will soon notice a nice sunrise with a sky full of  clouds, Cirrus-ee ones, Altostratus, some Altocumulus tending toward lenticulars (red denotes cloud forms added after the sun came up and I saw them.) I am late today, not because I overslept some, but also because I wanted… Continue reading Sunset color today?

Sky on fire; chance of rain still ahead for southern Arizona (but not much)

Chance of early Feb rain still ahead, and I can prove it.   This panel below is from last night’s 5 PM AST global data ingest into the WRF-GFS model, our best, as rendered here by IPS MeteoStar.  As you can see, there are quite a few acres of rain showing up in southern Arizona on… Continue reading Sky on fire; chance of rain still ahead for southern Arizona (but not much)