Today’s clouds Today our passing cold-core trough is overhead and in the middle of it, the moisture is low enough to trigger Cumulus and small Cumulonimbus clouds as the middle and high clouds exit “stage right.” Should be an interesting day since these cumuliform clouds will be so high-based (above the Lemmon summit) and cold… Continue reading Cirrocumulus on display; icy Cumulus later today
Category: Cirrocumulus clouds
Cirrocumulus display
First, it behooves me1 to point out that there remains a considerable amount of uncertainty in the weather WAY ahead. This is demonstrated below by the map from the NOAA spaghetti factory from last evening, one that churned out a LOT of “spaghetti”, perhaps making the point about how chaotic weather is: … Continue reading Cirrocumulus display
All’s not quiet on the western front
Rain beginning to pile up again in Cal as behemoth Pac storm moves in. See an actual, professional level weather map below, not a mickey mouse one. It will be good for you to see a complex weather map with all kinds of weather symbolia on it: 0.01 inches at Opids Camp, LA area mountain… Continue reading All’s not quiet on the western front
Keeps getting better..the storm on the doorstep, that is
“Better” means wetter, of course. You don’t read this blog to read about DROUGHT! You read it to read about rain and moistness; clouds, too. Let’s leave drought for the other guys… Here is the latest model permutation from the Canadians, one that successively, and successfully, I might add, jacks up the amount of rain… Continue reading Keeps getting better..the storm on the doorstep, that is
Pretty cloud day
One of the best, really, never mind all that wind yesterday. No rain, of course, in our future, not even fantasy rain these days. See usual rehash of yesterday’s clouds, the 60s, in case you forgot, below: The End.
Water year status (October through September precip)
Can there be any rain before the official end of the month, measurable rain that might improve our dismal 10.83 inches, droughty total? Not if you believe our own WRF-GFS model run from last night, but, “yes” if you like Canada and the Canadian GEM model. It has some rain in the area for us… Continue reading Water year status (October through September precip)
Early thunder on the Lemmon; later, but earlier, scattered big dumps and another light show
First about the rainfall around Arizona yesterday…. Jack is happy. Got 1.21 inches yesterday afternoon. Nice! No doubt some of our friends, fellow lowlanders, who can’t take Catalina-Sutherland Heights when the temperature rises above 82.5 F unlike you and me, experienced that cloud downspout that occurred at to Happy Jack Ranger Station in Pine, AZ,… Continue reading Early thunder on the Lemmon; later, but earlier, scattered big dumps and another light show
Pillar of the sun
At sunset yesterday, this rarely seen optical display called a “sun pillar”: Waited for a cute bird or bat to fly above or through the pillar, making it a more popular, valuable photo; instead a helicopter came by. But it “works” as shown below. You’ll have to look hard, but its there. Some of… Continue reading Pillar of the sun
Umbrella, galoshes, windbreaker at the ready
Low forming in AZ. Jet stream (at 500 millibars) goes by/strengthens to the SE during day; therefore, expect rain to begin before 5 PM, but not before 11 AM. It should continue off and on for about 24 h afterwards (in case you don’t watch TEEVEE where YOUR weatherman/gal will be telling you much of… Continue reading Umbrella, galoshes, windbreaker at the ready
Nice day, OK clouds
Here they are, left column: The weather ahead A huge buckle in the jet stream is forecast to form right off the West Coast in about a week, and its a pretty spectacular interruption in the pattern of a jet stream whizzing by far to the north of us that we have had now for… Continue reading Nice day, OK clouds