The “entrance” of our major cold front yesterday was spectacular! Hope you were able to stand upright in the wind, gusts to 60 mph, that just preceded it and saw that arcus cloud march across the Tortolita Mountains and into Oro Valley and Saddlebrooke. If you didn’t, its reprised here, of course. The arrival of… Continue reading Cold front with a spectacular arcus cloud rolls across Catalina; 0.68 inches logged in Sutherland Heights!
Category: Frontal passage
Storm brings wind, rain to Catalina; snow to high elevations
Above, a typical Los Angeles Times headline for a southern California storm when the writer was growing up, one framed for Catalina. Few storms don’t do this, so it was always kind of funny. To coninue on a nostalgic stream for some reason, the LA Times also had a very weather-centric publisher-owner1 in those days,… Continue reading Storm brings wind, rain to Catalina; snow to high elevations
Catalina gets 0.48 inches in brief frontal passage
(Note written on Dec 22nd! Something happened to the title I gave this previously, so its been titled now.) Didn’t seem possible that such a fast moving storm could drop this much! Neither did the mighty Beowulf Cluster at the U of AZ think so much would fall here. But there it is, a… Continue reading Catalina gets 0.48 inches in brief frontal passage
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
“Smells like desert snow”
Seattle’s Curt Cobain might have said something like this if he had lived in the desert. Alluding, of course, here to the SEATTLE teen angst band, Nirvana, and their big hit, “Smells Like Teen Spirit”. BTW, a song covered later by Bill Nye the Science Guy in an educational ditty, “Smells Like Air Pressure”. But… Continue reading “Smells like desert snow”
Moist but mostly dry
Though HUGELY disappointing because only a trace of rain fell here as of 7 AM this morning, and only a little in the Canada del Oro wash watershed (amounts here), nevertheless, what a nice, classic passage of a cold front. A cold front, as it sounds, marks the advancing boundary of colder air that is displacing… Continue reading Moist but mostly dry
Seattle comes to Catalina
Yes, if you’re from Seattle or the west side of the Cascade Mountains of the Pacific Northwest, you are going to feel especially at home today. Its dark, even with the sun up, low ceilings and visibility, steady light rain mixed with snow, temperatures in the mid 30s to low 40s, well, that’s home… Continue reading Seattle comes to Catalina