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
Category: Pileus
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!
Last chance for August rain#2
That would be today…. 🙁 First, this sight yesterday afternoon was interesting to me and I thought you should see it. Second, it would appear that I hit the “publish” button before I intended to, before I really got going and figured out what I was going to say. I was no where near that… Continue reading Last chance for August rain#2
Crazy over pileus
Lost control for awhile yesterday evening at sunset as pretty little pileus caps formed repeatedly on top of new Cumulus congestus/Cumulonimbus turrets to the west. It like an entomologist seeing a spotted owl, or some other rare bird like that. You don’t see pileus caps that often, and when you do, you’d better have your… Continue reading Crazy over pileus
“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