Cold front with a spectacular arcus cloud rolls across Catalina; 0.68 inches logged in Sutherland Heights!

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!

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”