Here a very nice site if you want to look at what weather records were being set around the country, with an example for the past few days below. The one below were set as a gigantic blob of cold air (high pressure region) plopped down into the US, one bigger and colder than usual… Continue reading Low temperature records galore
Category: Cirrus clouds
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Yesterday’s “be-a-moths”; what’s ahead in August and early September
Nice sunset yesterday, one consisting of_______, _________, ________ clouds, ones that always give us one of those “glad to be here” in Catalina, CDP, feelings. I might give the answers tomorrow, but please try to name these clouds and maybe get that, “Its fun being a cloud-maven, junior” T-shirt you’ve always wanted. It has clouds… Continue reading Yesterday’s “be-a-moths”; what’s ahead in August and early September
“Feint” rainbow
For a few minutes yesterday afternoon, it looked like some unexpected rain was trucking over the Cat Mountains from the east-northeast late yesterday afternoon. No one could blame you for getting your hopes up and misleading your neighborhood by saying it might rain in half an hour. Those clouds rolling in from the Catalinas (shown… Continue reading “Feint” rainbow
Rainy days and Saturdays
Nice sunset yesterday….as some Stratocumulus spread over the sky underneath a pesky Cirrus cloud cover, clouds that announced the beginning of our next rain spell, now underway. Light rain is falling this morning at 4:07 AM, and has been for hours, amounting to 0.01 inches. However, some places in Pima Land have gotten much nicer rains, around… Continue reading Rainy days and Saturdays
More nice clouds
Another nice day of high heat and high, patterned clouds. at times. Here are a few shots of the latter, beginning with another flaming sunrise shot. The U of AZ time lapse movie for yesterday is really informative. The clouds shown in the second shot go by just after 6 AM, soon after the movie… Continue reading More nice clouds
Spectacular cloud day yesterday
Probably most people didn’t notice much yesterday, but at times, especially in the mid-afternoon it was spectacular up there due to delicate little patterns within Cirrus and Cirrocumulus clouds. Some examples below. The Tucson rawinsonde sounding indicated that these initially liquid droplet clouds (Cirrocumulus and Altocumulus) were at 26,000 feet (at the 330 millibar level) above… Continue reading Spectacular cloud day yesterday
Clouds!
Something in the sky to look at, Cirrus! And more! Some Cirrus, Cirrocumulus, Altocumulus clouds from the tropics have floated over in time for a nice sunrise presentation. Some of these clouds should be around all day. From this morning: Also, let me reprise our June rain frequency chart for Catalina. “Upon further review”, I… Continue reading Clouds!
Little low goes by at 30,000 feet
While working on a climate issues rant due to an article in the latest issue of Scientific American (May 25th), we had an interesting cloud day yesterday. I needed a cooling off period anyway, so I thought I would point out some interesting things from yesterday, June 3rd. Here is yesterday’s cloud movie pointed at the… Continue reading Little low goes by at 30,000 feet
“Los Angeles” Catalina
Got a little homesick yesterday looking at the white sky, the barely visible mountains in the distance, like Twin Peaks, eyes a little teary, not from sadness so much, but from smog and smoke. Grew up in the San Fernando Valley you know, Reseda. Lots of smog there at times, though not as much as… Continue reading “Los Angeles” Catalina
Spinning on down from Glasgow to Rocky Point, a low
This is pretty interesting; don’t see this happen too often where a lobe of low breaks off and spins from Montana, back toward the south-southwest to pretty much over Rocky Point, MX, as you will see in this past 48 h water vapor loop. In a water vapor loop, you pretty much see all that the… Continue reading Spinning on down from Glasgow to Rocky Point, a low