…and the rest of Arizona tomorrow. Actually, at this hour, 5 AM, the storm coming here has not yet gotten to Burbank. Its only close. But, people get excited when you say things like that in the title, and that’s what we’re about here, weather excitement, not accuracy excitement. Weather excitement? Take… Continue reading Boffo storm bops Burbank before belting Benson
Category: Lenticular clouds
Yesterday’s clouds, dust, and smoke; virga ahead
It was zero visibility in Parhrump, Nevada, yesterday afternoon with wind gusts to 85 mph, as the cold front was about to crash on by. I guess we were lucky to only have 40-50 mph puffs of wind here in Catalinaland overnight, and not so much dust (yet). A sharp, but dry cold front… Continue reading Yesterday’s clouds, dust, and smoke; virga ahead
Whiff
How sad. A few contours to the south of us, that jet to the south of us, that is, and we’d have got our tenth or more inch of rain. But no. That trough over southern California and northern Baja had to zip out and “up” (that is, to the northeast) like a jet taking… Continue reading Whiff
Windy; slight rain foretold overnight
Doubtful to me, but a tiny amount of rain (less than o.10 inches) is foretold by the massive U of A Weather Department Beowulf Computer Cluster for Catalina overnight. Check this out. Would be very nice, even if just a dust settler. BTW, you should wipe down your rain gauge collector funnel since all the… Continue reading Windy; slight rain foretold overnight
“The answer”, as well as a lot of other things, will be “blowing in the wind” tomorrow
What did that mean, anyway, the “answer” is blowing in the wind”? What a crazy thing to say! What “answer”? I never heard it. Me? I liked, “Everyone Knows Its Windy”, by The Association. Now there’s a song…and “everyone” will know its “windy” tomorrow afternoon just like they said back then. Very… Continue reading “The answer”, as well as a lot of other things, will be “blowing in the wind” tomorrow
Near miss on rain; pretty clouds and a nice sunset
Here are a couple of scenes from pretty yesterday, a day that the phony numerical models had rain predicted for us one to two weeks in advance, and then dried that system out as far as we here in Catalina are concerned as the days got closer. This happens all the time in the models,… Continue reading Near miss on rain; pretty clouds and a nice sunset
Twice as nice; 0.53 inches in Catalina (0.58 inches as of 6:39 AM AST)
What a superb rain that was last night. It just kept coming until finally we piled up an astounding-to-me 0.53 inches by 4 AM this morning. The regional rain reports from around Tucson can be found here. As you will see, the upper regions of the Catalina Mountains got around an inch (1.22 inches at… Continue reading Twice as nice; 0.53 inches in Catalina (0.58 inches as of 6:39 AM AST)
Low spin cycle continuing off Baja; water being added
That enfante terrible now dawdles over the coastal waters of California and northern Baja today, adding some water to its central system as seen here from IPS Meteostar. Note, too, a scruff of Stratocumulus clouds racing northwestward in the Gulf of Baja abouit the latitude of the border between north and south Baja. This is… Continue reading Low spin cycle continuing off Baja; water being added
Great weather map day
Check this map out below from the University of Washington Huskies Weather Department. The whole 24 h series of sea level pressure maps is here and watch how things change in the SW and western Arizona just in that time. You rarely see lows of this magnitude in our area as we have right now,… Continue reading Great weather map day
“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….”