It was a mind-boggling, hiking-challenging -30 F at Grand Canyon AP yesterday morning. Overhead of Flagstaff, at 5 AM MST yesterday it was -38 C (-36 F) and that temperature was the lowest temperature at 500 millibars in all of the US. It is really, really rare to see -38 C over Arizona! … Continue reading Arizona: Colorado temperatures, Colorado clouds
Category: Stratocumulus clouds
Switzerland of Arizona
…sort of. Today’s storm ended after dumping a fabulous 1.03 inches here in “Catalina Heights.” Though it snowed very lightly here for several hours, the ground and the air were just a bit too warm for accumulations. However, the heavy precip dumped a heavy snow cover on the Catalina mountains just to the… Continue reading Switzerland of Arizona