Category: Wildflowers

On the Catalina trails with lenticularis

First, Cal drought bustin’ rain update: As much as 1-2 inches as far south as Ventura County so far, 3-4 inches in the coastal mountains of central Cal as of just now (4 AM AST).  Rolling 24 h Cal State archive here.  LA area rain here; keep an eye on Opids Camp and Crystal Lake… Continue reading On the Catalina trails with lenticularis

Light rain to fall in Catalina tonight

Don’t take my word for it; take this, from the University of Arizona’s Beowulf Cluster (BC) mass of computations: Total precipitation predicted for Catalina (0.01 to 0.10 inches) ending at 5 AM tomorrow morning. Some to the north fell yesterday afternoon, but it wasn’t that much.  Sure, its yesterday’s model crunch based on data that’s… Continue reading Light rain to fall in Catalina tonight

Big thunderblast down Oracle, Pusch Ridge way; a personal report

Couldn’t be on “the perch” for that rain here in SH-Catalina late yesterday afternoon (0.14 inches) due to a social engagement, but, serendipitously drove under the 1-2 inch blast of rain, lightning, and 60 mph winds that deluged Oracle Road at Magee and points south.   1.7 inches was measured in 37 minutes at the… Continue reading Big thunderblast down Oracle, Pusch Ridge way; a personal report

April as seen in rain day frequencies; some wildflowers seen

  ————————————- Guest Statement/retrospective on March 2013 for Tucson by Mr. Mark Albright, a mostly temperature-centric climatologist specialist from the University of Washington: “March 2013 was the 2nd warmest March in the past 65 years (1949-2013) at the Tucson Airport (KTUS) with an average temperature of 65.7 F which was +5.6 F above the 1981-2010… Continue reading April as seen in rain day frequencies; some wildflowers seen

Cirrus altocumulus castellano-floccogenitus

We had a rare form of Cirrus yesterday, whose name I have made up in the title as a hint of where they came from, due to the very high altitude and low temperatures of some Altocumulus yesterday.   Those Ac morphed to Cirrus, hence the strange, unpronounceable  title. Reminder,  weatherscience mavens, its more proper… Continue reading Cirrus altocumulus castellano-floccogenitus

Epilogue to historic storm; your broken records

Here, thanks to weather pal and researcher, Mark Albright, at the University of Washington, the low temperature and precip records set during our recent historic storm.    Cloudcast Unfortunately, the next few weeks, it appears, will be characterized by only chances of clouds, not rain, and mostly high ones at that.   Middle clouds like… Continue reading Epilogue to historic storm; your broken records

The Great Divide…

in models.   Could be called,  “delta models.”  Below, nice pleasant weather, nothing much going on or threatening or an imminent storm, whichever you like from last night’s crunching of global data from two great computer models.  The first from our own US output , and the second from  Canada for the same time and day, this coming… Continue reading The Great Divide…

In case you missed it…yesterday morning’s sunrise

A belated post, to be sure Yesterday morning’s sounding when the Altocumulus clouds were overhead.  Bases about -18 C, tops -27 C.  Lots of ice visible along with widespread virga.  Whenever you see this much ice in small Altocumulus clouds like these, you should automatically assume that the temperature at the top is less than… Continue reading In case you missed it…yesterday morning’s sunrise