Frosty, the Lemmon

When one first encounters this title with its unexpected play on words, we wonder what the author had in mind.   Of course, most of us know that at Christmastime, we are often regaled by a Christmas tune called, “Frosty the Snowman1“.   But here, we are surprised as we continue reading the title that instead… Continue reading Frosty, the Lemmon

Ice cream “Sunday” with a pileus topping

Yesterday’s cloud of the day:  Fantasy storm of the day ….popped out of the WRF-GFS run from 12 Z yesterday, rendered,  as we say, by IPS MeteoStar.  Tropical storm “Q” is shown in the Gulf of Cal/Sea of Cortez racing north into Arizona.  Pretty cool, huh? A map configuration like this hasn’t been back yet,… Continue reading Ice cream “Sunday” with a pileus topping

More like it; 0.43 inches in The Heights, 3.07 inches on Ms. Mt. Lemmon!

Thank you,  second burst of rain after about 8:15 PM.   And what a great total on The Lemmon!  Fantastic, unless some roads were washed out.  1.93 inches fell in only an hour up there.  1.85 inches fell in an hour at White Tail over there by the highway. Below, cribbed from the Pima County ALERT… Continue reading More like it; 0.43 inches in The Heights, 3.07 inches on Ms. Mt. Lemmon!

“Curve ball” of a Cumulonimbus strikes out Catalina again

It looked like it was coming straight down the middle. I didn’t see any rotation on it.   It was coming toward ME… and to Catalina.  We were going to get “shafted”, rain shafted that is, at last! I started taking video, shooting numerous still shots of the mammoth-behemoth, churning, tropical-like, boiling-roiling Cumulonimbus cloud rolling in… Continue reading “Curve ball” of a Cumulonimbus strikes out Catalina again