Remember that great Harold Arlyn song about smog? He was pretty upset when he wrote it I would imagine. Btw, the song was covered later in the 1950s by a group called The Platters… Below we have a shot of some late afternoon pretty, undulating Cirrus or Cirrostratus… (NOT!) That was a trick question, actually… Continue reading “Smoke gets in your skies”
Category: Cumulus clouds
The Twelve…rain drops in Catalina, that is
Well, maybe there were about 27, but anyway….not very many; still, those drops were to be treasured after not seeing a single “hydrometeor” display in SE AZ in so–ooooo LONG A TIME! ———————————- PG-13 advisory; DRIZZLE is discussed I have to warn you at this point. That rain event yesterday WAS NOT DRIZZLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I will… Continue reading The Twelve…rain drops in Catalina, that is
“Oh so pretty….”
You know the rest of the words to this song, the punch line, “…pretty ugly.” Yes, who can forget Johnny Rotten….? Gorgeous clouds yesterday, but no rain is going to follow them (the “ugly” part)! I had really hoped for a splotch of glaciating Stratocumulus clouds this morning after the great display of….the tongue twister,… Continue reading “Oh so pretty….”
Exit right (or to the east)
Here’s what happened on top of us yesterday, that gorgeous snow day with so many wonderful sights to see. These maps below, courtesy of San Francisco State University , for 500 millibar pressure level, about 18,000 feet above sea level, for 5 AM LST as the snow band moved through Catalina, and then 5PM LST, a… Continue reading Exit right (or to the east)
Virga anyone?
Mr. Cloudmaven person foretold certain cloud types would occur yesterday in conjunction with “storm” 3 yesterday (which was really only the passage of an upper level trough over us–see map for 5PM yesterday). Let’s see how he did, that is, whether he is an actual “cloudmaven”: (0=not observed, 1 observed, -1, cloud observed, not predicted:… Continue reading Virga anyone?
24 h of temperature infamy, Catalina, AZ
What an awful past 24 h here in “Catland”! We’ve not only had low, perhaps, unprecedented low temperatures for a day with full sun, but also a noxious 15-30 mph north wind. (Why didn’t we retire to Kauai where we would never be this cold????!!! Just kidding, sort of.) In some quarters(such as in a… Continue reading 24 h of temperature infamy, Catalina, AZ
Switzerland of Arizona
…sort of. Today’s storm ended after dumping a fabulous 1.03 inches here in “Catalina Heights.” Though it snowed very lightly here for several hours, the ground and the air were just a bit too warm for accumulations. However, the heavy precip dumped a heavy snow cover on the Catalina mountains just to the… Continue reading Switzerland of Arizona