If you mainly focus on going to movies about weathermen, you will remember this classic along with Steve Martin’s “LA Story.” Bill Murray, the weatherman, is condemned to live the same day over and over again until he gets it right. Since yesterday was a near repeat in many respects to the failed rain… Continue reading “Groundhog Day” all over again
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Kind of sad today. Too sad to think of a title. Thought you’d like to know that. Yesterday was once so promising. I almost had it all. I was SO happy to see clouds topping Mt. Lemmon at dawn, and then later, cloud bases down on Samaniego Ridge east of Catalina. How warm those… Continue reading Untitled
Too much “Altostratus cumulonimbogenitus”
Yes, that really is a cloud name; kinda silly really. Oh, well…. First, since there wasn’t enough rain here to make me happy–there wasn’t ANY in Catalina yesterday, I thought I would start out by making people feel better with a “Clouds R Fun” photo from yesterday. Here are two “puppy” clouds, side by side,… Continue reading Too much “Altostratus cumulonimbogenitus”
Stormy, pretty weather
It’s great when things are as they are supposed to be. Below, “the usual” kinds of scenes in July in southeast AZ from yesterday, such as Cumulus boiling off Mt Lemmon in the late morning, followed by dense rainshafts in almost every direction in the later afternoon. I love these scenes! Well, “usual” for SE… Continue reading Stormy, pretty weather
Whiteout!
Check this out for yesterday at 6:05 and 6:15 PM. First, part of the precursor FULL rainbow to the east of Catalina. (In most locales a rainbow to the east would mean the storm has passed.) The second shot was taken at the height of this magnificent storm. I thought I had seen it… Continue reading Whiteout!
Colorful
Both the rainbow last evening, and in a momentary language lapse below…. A once-severe severe thunderstorm with warnings out at one time, whimpered into Catalina last evening giving us just sprinkles or, in aviation parlance, “RW–” (meaning, “very light rain shower”) And long with it, one of our memorable sunset views of the rocky faces… Continue reading Colorful
Happy desert everyone!
I think it should be a holiday when the summer rains have crested over the inch mark, a “personal holiday” anyway, if you get one where you work. With a second day in a row yesterday with THREE sets of thunderstorms going over Catalina, and hearing thunder from about 1 PM until 9 PM,… Continue reading Happy desert everyone!
0.73 inches
Bullseye thunderstorm off the Catalina’s between 12:30 and 1:30 PM really did it, dropping a miraculous 0.55 inches. I suspect that 300 yards N and S got less than our driveway did where the gage is located. The smells, the puddles, the water running down the road; it was all so marvelous, and seemingly… Continue reading 0.73 inches
Rainy portent in a scruff of cloud
….that scruff of cloud topping Mt. Sara Lemmon around dawn this morning, to finish the thought. This: Why? Because seeing a cloud topping Mt. Lemmon instead of well above it indicates that the air is very moist and cloud bases are going to be realtively low, substantially lower than yesterday. This in turn means… Continue reading Rainy portent in a scruff of cloud
“Pyrocumulus”, an awful sight yesterday evening
There may have been some sharp eyed folks that saw a great looking Cumulus congestus in the distance off to the NNE of Catalina yesterday. The shots below were just before 7 PM LST. Perhaps there was a shower or thunderstorm on the Mogollon Rim. Sadly, even I was fooled for a few microseconds… Continue reading “Pyrocumulus”, an awful sight yesterday evening