What a day, Mr. and Mrs. Catalina! Not as good as a rain day with lightning, but yesterday did have its moments in the sky, enough to make the astrologers on Mt. Lemmon jealous with displays of parhelia (“sun dogs”, or “mock suns”), faint haloes, a rare parhelic circle, something you don’t see but once… Continue reading Ice optics extravaganza; Cirrus uncinus fallstreifen going in different directions!
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Cirrus, Cirrocumulus and Altostratus day closes with a painting-like sunset (now updated even more!)
No rain in sight for Catalinans, to get that over with. However, if you’re bored and are thinking about a quickie storm chasing vacation with the family, monster storms, likely to produce newspaper headlines will be smashing the Pac NW in the next few days. Expect to read about flooding and hurricane to 100 mph… Continue reading Cirrus, Cirrocumulus and Altostratus day closes with a painting-like sunset (now updated even more!)
Awesome evening skies leave Catalinans with but a trace of rain, but over there by Picture Rocks, they got over an inch!
“Too many pictures, for one site…”, a continuing theme here1, to paraphrase “? and the Mysterians1“. Two stations near Picture Rocks reported 1.25 and 1.35 inches, respectively, so some major rain fell fairly close to us. You can see the amount arounds around the State or here at the Banner U of AZ rainlog,org site.… Continue reading Awesome evening skies leave Catalinans with but a trace of rain, but over there by Picture Rocks, they got over an inch!
An unbelievably long blog about a surprise afternoon sprinkle of rain
A very few small, isolated drops fell between 4:50 and 5 PM here in Sutherland Heights from what appeared to be nothing overhead. You’d have to be really good to have not been driving, and to have anticipated the possibility (by recognizing ice in upwind clouds) and then having observed it. You would be recognized,… Continue reading An unbelievably long blog about a surprise afternoon sprinkle of rain
Thinking of wildflowers…
Since the forecast given HERE for large Cumulus clouds becoming Cumulonimbi did not happen last evening, it seemed appropriate to show some wildflowers as a distraction. First, a light, purple one of some kind; second, what we here call an “Arizona rose”, those fabulous blooms that form on prickly pear cacti. The photos below were,… Continue reading Thinking of wildflowers…
“Storm” total climbs to 0.10 inches with latest 0.02 inches!
People were wearing jackets as temperatures got locked down below 80° F the past few days, the wind blew once in a while, sometime lifting baseball caps off “gray hairs”, and gray skies hovered over Sutherland Heights for TWO and a half days! A surprise, few-minute gusher in the early afternoon yesterday was enough to… Continue reading “Storm” total climbs to 0.10 inches with latest 0.02 inches!
Now “trending” in spaghetti: an El Niño-style onset of rain during the last week in February (2016)
“Yep, rain’s on the way; yay”, to burst out with a little poetry there. But, it will be awhile before it gets here. See caption below. —————————— Non-meteorological entry: Gas now down to 21 cents a gallon in 1967 dollars (that’s what that $1.53 a gal here in Catalina now converts to in ’67… Continue reading Now “trending” in spaghetti: an El Niño-style onset of rain during the last week in February (2016)
Some cloud scenes from yesterday; a forecast map gone awry?
0.07 inches here in Sutherland Heights yesterday afternoon. Much more SW-NW of us, as the photos below show. A predicted super hurricane? I now direct your attention to the forecast maps below, produced by the WRF-GFS model last evening’s global data, courtesy of IPS MeteoStar, the usual. The aforementioned extremely strong hurricane foretold in the… Continue reading Some cloud scenes from yesterday; a forecast map gone awry?
Miscellaneous stuff; also, regime change now in progress!
Haven’t had much weather/clouds to gab about; maybe I’ll help reader with some extra material today, not usually associated with a site about clouds; kind of go outside the lines a little. Miscellaneous item 1 The Oracle Road report. Thought you’d like to see that. Miscellaneous item 2 This. Its quite good. You’ll see people… Continue reading Miscellaneous stuff; also, regime change now in progress!
A nice cloud yesterday, not a great cloud yesterday; dramatic day ahead
The clouds were somewhat of a disappointment yesterday, not the stupendous photogenic day CM was expecting. Maybe CM is total fraud, gets Big Oil funding and should be investigated by Rep. Grijalva as other weather folk are, like the great Prof. and National Academy of Sciences Fellow, Dr. Judy Curry, a friend, and about… Continue reading A nice cloud yesterday, not a great cloud yesterday; dramatic day ahead