In case you missed it, the thin layers of Altocumulus clouds provided a bit of a sunset “bloom” around 6:30 PM AST yesterday. Here’s what yesterday looked like, and I am doing this because I have a strong feeling some of you like to live in the past, like I do when I think… Continue reading Cirrus, maybe some lenticulars, and dust ahead
Category: Altocumulus clouds
“The answer”, as well as a lot of other things, will be “blowing in the wind” tomorrow
What did that mean, anyway, the “answer” is blowing in the wind”? What a crazy thing to say! What “answer”? I never heard it. Me? I liked, “Everyone Knows Its Windy”, by The Association. Now there’s a song…and “everyone” will know its “windy” tomorrow afternoon just like they said back then. Very… Continue reading “The answer”, as well as a lot of other things, will be “blowing in the wind” tomorrow
Dark clouds but no rain yesterday. What happened?
Quick answer: 1) drops too small to coalesce and form ones bigger ones ; 2) no ice in ’em, for the most part. Read below if you want a LONG discussion about yesterday; dull photos way below Let’s talk about it, though probably more than you want to. You’re probably a little down because it… Continue reading Dark clouds but no rain yesterday. What happened?
0.03 inches! Not as much as expected!
Want to keep the excitement level up…after all, it is raining somewhere near by… Besides, if you’re excited, it will sound like more happened than really did. (Another ploy is to report large amounts of rain somewhere else: “An Avra Valley location got 0.39 inches late yesterday and last night.” Really did.) http://159.233.69.3/temp/pptreport.txt Well,… Continue reading 0.03 inches! Not as much as expected!
Plethora of storms ahead; Catalina snow day still being foretold for Feb. 25th which is only nine days away now!
To help understand that odd word, “plethora” in the title in case you are befuddled by it, I have added a YouTube teaching module to help you out: “What is a ‘plethora’?” Well, one of the great model runs of our time has come out once again last night after yesterday’s great model run of… Continue reading Plethora of storms ahead; Catalina snow day still being foretold for Feb. 25th which is only nine days away now!
“Hello I must be going”
This trough about to cruise over Catalinaland is going too fast for much precip, “hence”, to use an old word, the title. (A quote from a Marx Brothers movie of yore.) We have about 12 h of rain potential in the form of brief passing showers from this morning to this evening. So,… Continue reading “Hello I must be going”
Jeckyll-Hyde models have future AZ rain once more after Big Miss today
Trying to feel better today about the huge miss, that “gutter ball” low that is slipping down the Baja coast toward MMZT (“Mazatlan” in weather identifier jargon) right now as I write, and trying to forget about what it could have been. Reminds me, too, of that critical dropped pass in the Superbowl by some… Continue reading Jeckyll-Hyde models have future AZ rain once more after Big Miss today
Smoke and mirrors in the models; fire in the sky
For those of you who have forgotten that heavy metal pioneering band, Deep Purple, and their hit, “Smoke on the Water”, to which this post sort of alludes to, straining really, take this. It was kind of fun to see this “songumentary”, because it was about something that really happened. In a line out… Continue reading Smoke and mirrors in the models; fire in the sky
Rain at the end of the tunnel?
Finally, the dark tunnel of pleasant, dry weather may be coming to an end, I am happy to say. The WRF-GOOFUS model longer range output has been showing RAIN in southern Arizona for two or three runs out around the 7th to 14th of February. Of course, those who follow this blog know that… Continue reading Rain at the end of the tunnel?
Pomp and circumstance, but only a hundredth
“Pomp”, in the form of some thunder and lightning, and a few hail stones between 10 and 10:30 PM AST; “circumstance” with a pretty strong trough going by. But they only delivered a hundredth of an inch of rain at the ground here in Catalina. I guess the bugs will be satisfied, but it… Continue reading Pomp and circumstance, but only a hundredth