Just when you thought it couldn’t rain anymore, blammo, three, no, FOUR, no FIVE hundredths fall! Started just after 3 AM this morning, than another hundredth just now before 7 AM. How great is this! Didn’t see it coming, either.
From the Pima County ALERT gauges:
Gauge 15 1 3 6 24 Name Location
ID# minutes hour hours hours hours
—- —- —- —- —- —- —————– ———————
Catalina Area
1010 0.00 0.00 0.12 0.12 0.12 Golder Ranch Horseshoe Bend Road in Saddlebrooke
1020 0.00 0.00 0.12 0.12 0.12 Oracle Ranger Stati approximately 0.5 mile southwest of Oracle
1040 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 Dodge Tank Edwin Road 1.3 miles east of Lago Del Oro Parkway
1050 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 Cherry Spring approximately 1.5 miles west of Charouleau Gap
1060 0.00 0.04 0.04 0.04 0.04 Pig Spring approximately 1.1 miles northeast of Charouleau Gap
1070 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 Cargodera Canyon northeast corner of Catalina State Park
1080 0.00 0.00 0.16 0.16 0.16 CDO @ Rancho Solano Cañada Del Oro Wash northeast of Saddlebrooke
1100 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 CDO @ Golder Rd Cañada Del Oro Wash at Golder Ranch Road
Santa Catalina Mountains
1030 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 Oracle Ridge Oracle Ridge, approximately 1.5 miles north of Rice Peak
1090 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 Mt. Lemmon Mount Lemmon
1110 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 CDO @ Coronado Camp Cañada Del Oro Wash 0.3 miles south of Coronado Camp
1130 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 Samaniego Peak Samaniego Peak on Samaniego Ridge
1140 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 Dan Saddle Dan Saddle on Oracle Ridge
2150 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 White Tail Catalina Highway 0.8 miles west of Palisade Ranger Station
2280 0.00 0.00 0.04 0.12 0.12 Green Mountain Green Mountain
2290 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 Marshall Gulch Sabino Creek 0.6 miles south southeast of Marshall Gulch
Generally these kinds of amounts were observed over most of Arizona north of Tucson. More chances for brief rain today, too, all of a sudden. Mods had nothin’ yesterday, and YET, here it is, a rain.
Great sunset last evening, too, in case you missed it. Me, too. Forgot my camera when going out, but did glimpse it as we drove home.
When you’re in the bowl, the “trough bowl: that is, good things happen, and like this morning’s surprise rain, being in the bowl means more rain might fall than expected, since those upper level troughs and all the good things they do, get stronger when they’re approaching the place where the “bowl” is, technically in the “mean trough position” where troughs reach their most southern latitudes. And this is where we will be for at least the next week.
We therefore have three good rain possibilities, today, Monday night into Tuesday morning, and then something substantial on the 6th-7th, and the spaghetti plots make that last one look like a fairly confident forecast. Here is one of those latter rainy maps for Arizona, ones we hope verify, because there because it looks grim for February after this:
Your cloud day yesterday, more or less:
The End.
