Not only did Tucson set a daily record for rain on June 16th with 0.29 inches, breaking the old record of 0.20 inches that fell in 1918 (!), but here in Catalina, the 0.11 inches was the first measurable rain on June 16th in the 35-year combined record maintained at Our Garden, and then here for the… Continue reading An extraordinary June 16th
Category: Cumulonimbus clouds
Fires and smoke
Yesterday afternoon smoke from the Gladiator-Crown King and Tonto fires began spreading toward Catalina. Here are a couple of photos taken toward evening. The first photo is of the Gladiator fire plume and the second has the Tonto fire plume on the horizon on the right. You can see a bit of separation between the… Continue reading Fires and smoke
Yesterday’s awful Cumulus clouds; better ones today!
From the University of WY Cowpokes, this awful sounding from yesterday afternoon at Tucson. Where the two lines first pinch together, around the “500” label, is where the Cumulus cloud bases were yesterday afternoon (marked by the oval)! To see why those Cumulus were awful ones with too much ice, check the temperature lines, the ones… Continue reading Yesterday’s awful Cumulus clouds; better ones today!
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
Cold one on tap for Catalina; tubes in Cal
First, this is not about BEER! Usually when you get carried away and expect something unusual to happen, it doesn’t, like that girl I thought liked me but didn’t (there have been a number of those…) Yesterday, carried-away Mr. Cloud Maven person mentioned the possibility of tubes in Cal. Here’s the report in the Big… Continue reading Cold one on tap for Catalina; tubes in Cal
Whence graupel?
What a fantastically gorgeous, if uncomfortable day yesterday was! Such skies! Such odd temperatures for March 19th. And another day with ice falling from the sky, mostly “graupel”, but also some snowflakes (aggregates of dendritic crystals) at one point, too, when “stratiform clouds” came by (flat, layered ones) about mid-day. The total water equivalent, 0.08… Continue reading Whence graupel?