What a nice day yesterday was, ending with this fabulous, but run-of-the mill sunsets we get to see here in the Catalina area on a regular basis. Yesterday was interesting because we had two graupel (soft hail) showers, the first about noon, and the second with a blast of thunder (1) at 1605 PM. … Continue reading All’s well that ends well
Category: The weather ahead
Snowball Earth? Well, maybe a Snowball Tucson on the doorstep!
The computer models are diverging significantly on the “tail of the scorpion” on this incoming front and the two troughs that pass over us in the next few days. First, a Pacific front blows through on Monday with its upper air accompaniment racing to the northeast. But then this monumentally strong wave disturbance barges in… Continue reading Snowball Earth? Well, maybe a Snowball Tucson on the doorstep!
Catalina-Smog before the storm
Those of us awaking this morning were literally a-palled by the amount of smoke around. Not even Twin Peaks was visible, some 10 miles to the SW. See examples of smog in the photos below. Where did it come from? Back trajectories, ones that end in Tucson as of this morning at 5 AM shown… Continue reading Catalina-Smog before the storm