Category: Stupendous storms

Ka-blam! 1.07 inches, most of it in half an hour.

The late afternoon yesterday was like a Carpenter’s song, i.e., “easy listening” interrupted by Metallica, Megadeath, Slayer, Black Flag, Helloween, The English Dogs (“She Kicked Me in the Head and Left Me for Dead”), etc. A day filled with moderately promising Cumulus congestus and brief area Cumulonimbus clouds, was suddenly overrun by a black steam… Continue reading Ka-blam! 1.07 inches, most of it in half an hour.

Rainbow? Or, after THAT storm, was it the “‘Arc’ of the Convenant”?

What an amazing, Biblical sight1 that came across the Catalina Mountains yesterday evening, that shaft of intense rain and attendant rainbow!  After a day where it looked like rain might not happen here, those earlier Cumulus clouds being pretty lazy really, this behemoth powered across Tucson and the Catalina Mountains dropping 0.56 inches in momentarily… Continue reading Rainbow? Or, after THAT storm, was it the “‘Arc’ of the Convenant”?

Every which way but here

Of course, alluding today in the title to the great western movie with John Wayne… Every which way you looked yesterday afternoon, there was a great rainshaft.  1.85 inches fell in one hour at Picture Rocks Community Center yesterday afternoon,  2.01 inches total.  Several stations around the county had another 1-2 inches yesterday.  You can… Continue reading Every which way but here

Stuck in the middle; only 0.03 inches in Catalina from Kansas skies

“Shafts to the left of me, shafts to the right of me, but here I am, stuck in the middle with you.”  (Yeah, and without any rain.)   Who can’t forget Stealers Wheel?  Most everybody I guess. Here is an example of a “middle”, an empty region between rainshafts in this case.  You don’t want… Continue reading Stuck in the middle; only 0.03 inches in Catalina from Kansas skies

Another dramatic Catalina weather day-the book

OK, this one’s a little long, lots of twists and turns in the weather plot before its over….but as the Arthur, I felt they were needed (that is so funny! 🙁 We’ll start with the “end” of the book; cut to the chase: the mods have another possible big day this afternoon,  Check it out… Continue reading Another dramatic Catalina weather day-the book

Is it India? Or is it Catalina?

Let’s have a contest, get the brain going. With dewpoints hovering near, and even eeking into the low 70s in AZ, with giant thunderstorms complexing our weather with sudden stupifying downpours, one wonders, after all of these blogs, this “body of work” if you will,  if the several people who comprise the Cloud-Maven blogpire, one… Continue reading Is it India? Or is it Catalina?

Dream maps in latest prog series; RAIN foretold for southern Arizona!

Every so often something stupefying comes up in the models, such as the extraordinary upper low predicted for over southern California on June 17th.   Well, that low disappeared on subsequent model runs, but as of the 06 Z (11 PM  AST) run from last night, its back! But, in that run from yesterday, it… Continue reading Dream maps in latest prog series; RAIN foretold for southern Arizona!

Wind pummels Catalina again and again and again

Thinking about buying into the wind turbine thing…. Also, I’m hearing complaints about Catalina weather from anonymous sources.  First, in late winter, it was “too dry.”   Then recently,  it was “too hot.”  Now, I am hearing, “its too windy, I can’t take my horse out, my baseball cap blew off, etc.” What have we… Continue reading Wind pummels Catalina again and again and again