As per my photographic niche, I began to capture some promising bottoms of clouds yesterday afternoon around 2 PM. The first shot shows a promising cloud (so-so sized Cumulus congestus) drifting westward over Mt. Sara Lemmon. The next shots show the progression in the appearance of the bottom (my specialty) before the dump truck was… Continue reading Rain dump truck; 0.73 inches
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Thunder-rooskie
With a thunderstorm at 7 AM LST yesterday mainly toward Saddlebrooke, you may have thought, “What a thundery day this will be! It will be like Cherrapunji during the Indian-Bangladesh monsoon season when it rains and thunders all day and inches of rain pile up!” And of course, it wasn’t going to be like that… Continue reading Thunder-rooskie
Drops away!
As a photographer, you like to develop a niche. My niche, of course, if you follow this site, is gray matter overhead, an amorphous, gray balls. Now yesterday was a great day for adding something to my collection since a Cumulus base, one that was clearly headed for better things than just being a Cumlus… Continue reading Drops away!
Everywhere but here
What a great cloud day yesterday was with thunder on the Catalina Mountains by 10 AM. It seemed so promising for a major rain here in Catalina. But no, shafts to the left, shafts to the right. In fact, we were “surrounded” on three sides by shafts at times, but only residuals of those shafts… Continue reading Everywhere but here
Promising fizzle
If you looked outside to the south and upwind of Catalina later yesterday afternoon, after a disappointing day of Cumulus development over the Cat Mountains, you saw this behemoth of a top protrude out of a mass of cirriform clouds beyond Pusch Ridge. Excitement begins. Can it hold up long enough to reach… Continue reading Promising fizzle
Sprouts, and not much more
Here they are, reflecting the heat island of Mt. Lemmon yesterday, repeated narrow surges of heat and cloud sprouting upward, and only one reaching the level where ice formed, and a little snow fell out–second photo. Go here to the U of A fubball-practicing Wildcats Atmospheric website to see the whole interesting sequences of pulses… Continue reading Sprouts, and not much more
Trace King; how to be one
Had a trace of rain yesterday, August 5th, in Catalina as a few drops fell just after 5 PM, and again just after 8 PM. If you weren’t outside or driving in the neighborhood, you wouldn’t have noticed. I always felt recording a trace of rain was important, but the recording of traces is definitely… Continue reading Trace King; how to be one
In case you missed it…
yesterday’s lightning criss-crossed rainbows over Catalina/Oro Valley. Couldn’t capture the lightning, but two strokes occurred while this glorious rainbow was in progress. Once again, being from Seattle, I have to say, “Never seen that combination before.” I now really wish the University of Washington had had a branch campus in the Tucson area–go Huskies! … Continue reading In case you missed it…
Sunny, with rain and close lightning strikes
Good grief, what a last 12 h or so. First, the smallest thunderstorm that produced the most vicious cloud-to-ground strikes that I’ve experienced developed overhead just before 5 PM LST yesterday. Took the photos below looking in several directions because, as the heavy rain fell for a few minutes and the lightning bolts were… Continue reading Sunny, with rain and close lightning strikes
Anyone for sprouts?
Man, I wanted some sprouts so BAD yesterday afternoon! But, no, it looked like there weren’t going to be any. The air seemed to be too dry near the tops of the small Cumulus clouds that populated our sky until 3:30 PM LST. But then, voila, sprouts! Little acorns grew into huge cauliflowers! And then,… Continue reading Anyone for sprouts?