Last night’s model runs continue to indicate a showery spell of no less than 10 days duration in the State of AZ. IPS Meteostar, a private weather provider, has repackaged the National Center for Environmental Prediction numerical model predictions here. No one cannot be excited by this prospect in view of our droughty August. What’s REALLY… Continue reading Scattered rain in AZ forecast next ten days!
Category: Cumulus clouds
Toad’s night out; 0.93 inches
What a superb rain that was here in Cat land! The early signs, which I pointed out to a friend well before it happened, fully developed, “behemothic” Cumulonimbus capillatus incus clouds before noon. Take a look at some of the early “warning” developments. I included a baby Cumulonimbus capillatus cloud just for the heck… Continue reading Toad’s night out; 0.93 inches
Thunder-rooskie
With a thunderstorm at 7 AM LST yesterday mainly toward Saddlebrooke, you may have thought, “What a thundery day this will be! It will be like Cherrapunji during the Indian-Bangladesh monsoon season when it rains and thunders all day and inches of rain pile up!” And of course, it wasn’t going to be like that… Continue reading Thunder-rooskie
Drops away!
As a photographer, you like to develop a niche. My niche, of course, if you follow this site, is gray matter overhead, an amorphous, gray balls. Now yesterday was a great day for adding something to my collection since a Cumulus base, one that was clearly headed for better things than just being a Cumlus… Continue reading Drops away!
Promising fizzle
If you looked outside to the south and upwind of Catalina later yesterday afternoon, after a disappointing day of Cumulus development over the Cat Mountains, you saw this behemoth of a top protrude out of a mass of cirriform clouds beyond Pusch Ridge. Excitement begins. Can it hold up long enough to reach… Continue reading Promising fizzle
11 (hundredths)
While we would have liked to have had our rain amplifier turned up to more than 11, as Nigel Tufnel might say, but we got this amount out of an unusual situation in which you often miss rain. The cloud that did it formed virtually overhead and rained itself out without moving. Best dump of… Continue reading 11 (hundredths)
Anyone for sprouts?
Man, I wanted some sprouts so BAD yesterday afternoon! But, no, it looked like there weren’t going to be any. The air seemed to be too dry near the tops of the small Cumulus clouds that populated our sky until 3:30 PM LST. But then, voila, sprouts! Little acorns grew into huge cauliflowers! And then,… Continue reading Anyone for sprouts?
The “boys” are back in town; those Cumulonimbus ones
Who can forget “Thin Lizzzy”? I guess everyone. A reminder of their one hit below: “Guess who just got back today? Them wild-eyed boys that had been away Haven’t changed, haven’t much to say But man, I still think them cats are crazy” After some English language deviations above, it was great to… Continue reading The “boys” are back in town; those Cumulonimbus ones
The color of rain
In case you missed it last evening…. Don’t forget, too, that if you are standing in sunlight AND rain, that you are IN somebody’s rainbow. In fact, whereever the sunlight is hitting the rain is somebody’s rainbow. You can only see the one the laws of physics combined with drop sizes allow you to… Continue reading The color of rain
0.04 inches is all
Well, it was reel good to get some rain, but we were SO close to a big dump! Of course, the sophisticated reader will have noticed right off the air was larded with Floridian-style humidity yesterday morning. And what was the other sign for great (large) clouds immediately in front of you? Clouds topping Mt… Continue reading 0.04 inches is all