“Sixteen hundredths”, originally a song by a boy group of that day so long ago, The Crests, about a light rain that fell in May in southern California, an event that is quite rare and exciting at that time of the year there. But then practical and marketing considerations caused the song to be… Continue reading Stratiform clouds bring steady rain and snow; sixteen hundredths to Catalina
Category: Cumulonimbus clouds
Cold slam arrives but with little rain; 0. 03 inches
Once in the “behemoth-of-the-month” club some 10-12 days ago in the models as a major rain producer this month, and even its timing on the 28th was WELL-predicted as far back as that, yesterday’s storm and powerful trough aloft was ultimately a disappointment, producing only 3 hundredths here. That tiny amount of rain was phenomenally… Continue reading Cold slam arrives but with little rain; 0. 03 inches
Cold slam
That’s your weather forecast for today. There’s nothing you can do about it. Why go on about it? Next, these from yesterday–was under control, only took 127 photos. Every thousand or so shots I take is NOT of a cloud, and yesterday there were two exceptions, which I will post here as an anomaly; a… Continue reading Cold slam
Jan 25th-26th storm creates billions in beneficial rains
Oh, yeah, billions and billions of tons of rain dropped out of the skies over AZ, and much of the SW over the past two days. It, too, might have saved billions in dollars by deterring crop losses, vegetation and critter stress, and own our stress over the drought, “Will it get worse?” That watery… Continue reading Jan 25th-26th storm creates billions in beneficial rains
Well hung, that virga yesterday…
“Hanging virga” materialized yesterday, starting from a cluster of late morning modest, but very cold, Cumulus clouds that transitioned to soft and small Cumulonimbus clouds as they approached the northern parts of Catalina, Charoleau Gap and Oracle yesterday. How cold were those clouds? Bases were at 10,000 feet, just above Mt. Sara Lemmon, at about… Continue reading Well hung, that virga yesterday…
Yesterday: a rare drizzle occurrence in the morning and later, gorgeous Cumulus-filled skies
First of all, Happy New Year to both readers! Thanks for hanging in there. The weather ahead… before a long diatribe about drizzle, followed by some pretty pictures with explanations: Some picaresque Cirrus later today. Looks like next chance for rain is around the 10th-11th of Jan. A rare drizzle occurrence Cloud maven juniors were… Continue reading Yesterday: a rare drizzle occurrence in the morning and later, gorgeous Cumulus-filled skies
Flatlined
The recording raingauge, that is. A coupla drops is all that fell here in Catalina after some indications of cores around us later yesterday afternoon that were producing measurable rain. You can go to the U of AZ rainlog site to see some local amounts–the Pima County ALERT site is down right now. They’ll have… Continue reading Flatlined
Raining hard here at 4:08 AM
Little cell going by (aka, weak Cumulonimbus). I hope you’re up to enjoy the sounds of a good cellular rain on the roof. I feel like another song coming on. Ooops, same one, but its a good one because it not only has rain and thunder in it, but also pathos1. (I thought the thunder in… Continue reading Raining hard here at 4:08 AM
Dry model prediction WRONG! 0.02 inches falls in Catalina!
It’s great when models falter, and yesterday was one of those times that a human bean can exult. The U of A model, crunched out on the Beowolf Cluster (I can’t even imagine how powerful such a computer would be with a name like that), said that Catalina would have NO RAIN yesterday, zero, nil,… Continue reading Dry model prediction WRONG! 0.02 inches falls in Catalina!
A couple of cloud pics, and the next pretty big US-Canadian model divergence coming up (updated)
Updated-at-lunchtime bulletin This is tremendous, filled with rainy portent for AZ. I am getty excited again as I perused the 6-day (144 h) mod output from Enviro Can, our friends to the north, most of whom live close to the US border because they like us so much and we like them: Take a… Continue reading A couple of cloud pics, and the next pretty big US-Canadian model divergence coming up (updated)