The documentary photos, below, of a modest-looking Cumulus congestus cloud yesterday afternoon that lept up to the stratosphere in the 20 minutes that cloud maven person wasn’t watching. Yours truly, while videoing it from start to finish, only got two still shots in those 20 min due to a distraction1; was not taking photos of… Continue reading “Volcano” erupts north of the Tucson Mountains; California Niño, too, along the Cal coast
Category: Stupendous storms
Good muddy morning, Mr. and Mrs. Catalina!
Well, it finally happened, we got shafted royally (as CM likes to say, referring to getting rain shafted) yesterday afternoon with a badly needed 1.09 inches here in Sutherland Heights. More than 2 inches fell nearby, too, such as near the intersection of Hwy 77 and 79! The highlight of the storm was, of course,… Continue reading Good muddy morning, Mr. and Mrs. Catalina!
While waiting for the rain….
Started to rain here in at 3:45 AM…have 0.01 inches so far. :{ So far in AZ, Flagstaff area leading the way Statewide with about 0.90 inches. You can check out those amounts in real time here from the USGS, and here for Pima County. Also you can look at those amounts reported in real… Continue reading While waiting for the rain….
All’s not quiet on the western front
Rain beginning to pile up again in Cal as behemoth Pac storm moves in. See an actual, professional level weather map below, not a mickey mouse one. It will be good for you to see a complex weather map with all kinds of weather symbolia on it: 0.01 inches at Opids Camp, LA area mountain… Continue reading All’s not quiet on the western front
On the Catalina trails with lenticularis
First, Cal drought bustin’ rain update: As much as 1-2 inches as far south as Ventura County so far, 3-4 inches in the coastal mountains of central Cal as of just now (4 AM AST). Rolling 24 h Cal State archive here. LA area rain here; keep an eye on Opids Camp and Crystal Lake… Continue reading On the Catalina trails with lenticularis
Dull Altostratus-ee day yesterday, but big Pac storm continues to move toward Catalina!
That thick (likely more than 3 km, or more than 10,000 feet) and steady gray sky diet of Altostratus opacus clouds didn’t provide a lot of visual highlights most of yesterday, in contrast to the many Altocumulus flocculations of the day before. An example of yesterday’s sky for most of the day: Virga hung down… Continue reading Dull Altostratus-ee day yesterday, but big Pac storm continues to move toward Catalina!
Rains moving closer to Catalina; whopper LA rain ahead
It doesn’t get any better than this if you need rain and want 10 inches: Actually, 10 inches in a day is not so unusual in the mountains of southern California, which is something that’s going to happen if this model output verifies this weekend. Also, the storm takes a couple of days to go… Continue reading Rains moving closer to Catalina; whopper LA rain ahead
Final storm total here 2.31 inches
0.48 inches fell after 7 AM yesterday, a nice addition to the 1.83 inches already “in the (raingauge) can”, with a 0.01 inches dollop overnight here in Catalina/Sutherland Heights, slightly more and less here and there, with several inches in the local mountains. That addition brought our storm total to 2.31 inches, about 2.5 times… Continue reading Final storm total here 2.31 inches
1.77 inches in Catalina and counting
….as of 6 AM. And we might even end up with TWO inches total for this storm! Amazing! I couldn’t imagine it, even as a precipophile with a known bias, that more than 1.5 inches would fall from this situation (10% chance of more than that I wrote), with a best guess of only about… Continue reading 1.77 inches in Catalina and counting
Keeps getting better..the storm on the doorstep, that is
“Better” means wetter, of course. You don’t read this blog to read about DROUGHT! You read it to read about rain and moistness; clouds, too. Let’s leave drought for the other guys… Here is the latest model permutation from the Canadians, one that successively, and successfully, I might add, jacks up the amount of rain… Continue reading Keeps getting better..the storm on the doorstep, that is