Truly LATE breaking news, untimely really, but Augustober 18th was too special a day to ignore: Giant clouds, dense rain shafts, frequent lightning in the area throughout the afternoon, dewpoints in the high 50s to 60 F; can it really be after the middle of October? Or, is this some kind of preview of climate… Continue reading Augustober weather continues on October 18th
Category: Cumulonimbus clouds
Twofer
Rarely do passing lows get a two chances to produce rain, but the low passing overhead today and tomorrow, does. Ten days from now, its overhead again! How funny izzat? And precipful, too. Measurable rain will fall today in Catalina CDP (“Census Designated Place”, i.e., its not a city), and in about 10 days when… Continue reading Twofer
Your evening sililoquoy with a Cumulonimbus
Along with this photo sequence, I reprise the thoughts you had as a CMJ1 yesterday as you watched a truly stunning cloud drama evolve: Nice morning, though, breezy, humid (dewpoint 65 F) with “flat heaps” (Stratocu) topping Sam Ridge now. What will happen today? Mods think some showers will form in the mid-afternoon here and… Continue reading Your evening sililoquoy with a Cumulonimbus
Cloud scenes from August 31, 2015, a big summer rain day
BTW, a little more than 4.5 inches has fallen on Mt. Lemmon in the past 24 h. 0.99 inches fell here in Sutherland Heights. Maybe the Sutherland Wash will be running this morning. That would be nice to see. More rains ahead in the next few days. Mushrooms coming… The End.
A day of cloud magnificence and error
Morning thunder, evening thunder; 0.84 inches of rain, 1-2 inches in the mountains, with some of the most dramatic skies and shocking cloud changes ever seen (by me). “But, hey, enough of ‘me’, lets get on with the ‘shockumentary’”, as Rob Reiner might say. Scene 1: Its morning. A horsey ride has been planned with… Continue reading A day of cloud magnificence and error
Blues returning to Tucson!
You won’t have to go to New Mexico, Sonora, or the Indian State of Kerala to find great summer rain. According to this model output from last evening, its only a bit more than a week away! The last time we saw a model prediction like the ones below, was for the 24 h ending… Continue reading Blues returning to Tucson!
Some cloud photos from recent days
Have had little time lately, some problems, too, loading photos in WP, so that’s why. Looks like the next best chance for rain is Friday into Saturday. But you already know that from all the TEEVEE weather you watch. The End.
Lucky snap; studies in orange
From the past three days, these: In other news….. Record July rains are falling in much of the coastal and intermediate valleys of southern California as the pathetic remnant of once proud Category FOUR hurricane Dolores makes landfall there today. Places like San Diego have had well over an inch, unheard of in July. August,… Continue reading Lucky snap; studies in orange
“Just another day”, pretty much like the day before
“Just Another Day“, btw, one of the many great songs by Oingo Boingo, if you’ve ever heard of them. We’re not just about clouds here. Trying to broaden your pop cultural knowledge with distractions like this. Yesterday was remarkable in how exact it was to the day before in clouds, but ultimately disappoiting.1 There was… Continue reading “Just another day”, pretty much like the day before
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?