Been dreaming about a white Lemmon for quite awhile, ever since the New Year’s Eve snowstorm here. Finally got one yesterday, as we saw. Here are a few extra Lemmons for you: Yesterday’s clouds (includes photo of a small, cute dog) Looking closer, I hope you recorded the slight fall streaks (fallstreifen, ger.)… Continue reading A nice white Lemmon
Category: The weather ahead
Smoky “hello” from Asia
While depressed about a waterless trough approaching us today, well, maybe a few hundredths is all that can fall from its passage, I thought I would depress you that bit more by showing how our smoggy world is connected. Perhaps you thought, wrongly, of course, that the smoke layer above us yesterday was from from… Continue reading Smoky “hello” from Asia
El Niño Risin’, “Cal Niño” persists; another comet passes over Tucson?
“I think a year ago I sent you the early alert that Eel Ninyo is coming!!! Well, I think I was about 1 year early … the real deal seems to be gearing up for a more major appearance this year … check it out: http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/precip/CWlink/MJO/enso.shtml “My fingers are crossed for a much more typical… Continue reading El Niño Risin’, “Cal Niño” persists; another comet passes over Tucson?
Summer-like clouds bring a trace of rain, thunder to Catalina
The Cottonwoods1 Daily Trash Report Litterfolk continue to prefer Bud Light cans and bottles over craft beers. While its interesting to make these surveys, CMP reminds readers, “Litter responsibly; in a receptacle.” The trash you see here was collected during a single trip to the Sutherland Wash and back. The Sutherland Wash Flow Report A … Continue reading Summer-like clouds bring a trace of rain, thunder to Catalina
Catalina embraces a second day of rain
Drops, that is. There were about 140 or so the night before last, noticeable only if you left your dusty car outside, and TWO drops yesterday between 4:08:22 and 4:08:51 PM, as the last remnant of a shower cloud moved overhead from The Gap (the Charouleau one). You HAD to be outside running around to… Continue reading Catalina embraces a second day of rain
Frequent model rains continue to fall around Catalina in the weeks ahead
This link will bring up the window below. There’s a little tutorial below on what to do once when you get to this window:When you get to this page, the latest model run data will come up in red. Here, to see precipitation in colors on a map, click on the name, “1000_500_thick” for the… Continue reading Frequent model rains continue to fall around Catalina in the weeks ahead
More rain to fall in March; water STILL running in the Sutherland Wash!
The author has made two claims. Let us look at the evidence, the first of which was obtained yesterday morning in support of one of those. A hiker/walker, the author met, we will call him, “Bob”, though it seems doubtful that’s his real name since he had quite a strong northern European accent, said there… Continue reading More rain to fall in March; water STILL running in the Sutherland Wash!
Such a morning, such an evening; lots in between
1) Let yesterday morning’s color show speak for itself, just incredible, speaking for it anyway. 2) Please review the U of AZ time lapse film here to understand why it takes the biggest computer Fujitsu can build to calculate what the atmosphere is doing. Also reviewing this let’s you escape from the tedium about to… Continue reading Such a morning, such an evening; lots in between
Phony Cu fractus hint at moderate to severe turbulence aloft; the BS ahead
Immediately, “BS” is for “Big Storm” ahead, not something untoward. OK, first a piece about yesterday’s unusual clouds at Cirrus levels; you wouldn’t want to be flying in, or underneath these: You can also these specks fly by in the U of AZ time lapse film. If you look at the film when they do,… Continue reading Phony Cu fractus hint at moderate to severe turbulence aloft; the BS ahead
Moving along; rain to fall in early March (a lot of it)
In fact, the chance of MEASURABLE rain in Catalina is at least 100%, maybe as high as 300%, between 5 AM AST, Sunday, March 1st and 5 AM, AST, March 4th. Namely, its gonna happen. Now, its not gonna rain that whole time, likely starting later in the day on the 1st. Pretty darn exciting… Continue reading Moving along; rain to fall in early March (a lot of it)