First, let’s catch up on drought…from who else but the Drought Monitor folks at Big Red (UNL). They know best: The scoop A storm from the Pacific passes slowly over Arizona on the 28th bringing desperately needed, soaking rains to almost all ag units, wildllife, desert vegetation, and us. It then plods on across NM… Continue reading The trillion dollar storm
Category: The weather WAY ahead (10 days or more)
Creepin’ Cirrus; pedantry on display
“Storms” at 30,000 feet, single ice crystals falling from various varieties and species of Cirrus clouds. That’s about all we got for “weather” in the next few days as Cirrus creeps up from the tropics into Arizona. But those Cirrus produce great sunrises and sunsets, so have camera ready. And while not much is happening,… Continue reading Creepin’ Cirrus; pedantry on display
“The Seeds of Uncinus”; a review
Starring Justin Bieber as Harry Potter in the upcoming 12th Harry Potter movie, the musical…. (There, that should grab some attention. But then people would be disappointed, maybe mad, but still they might see something here about Cirrus uncinus clouds that they didn’t know before.) Had some great Cirrus uncinus clouds yesterday! I was not… Continue reading “The Seeds of Uncinus”; a review
Well hung, that virga yesterday…
“Hanging virga” materialized yesterday, starting from a cluster of late morning modest, but very cold, Cumulus clouds that transitioned to soft and small Cumulonimbus clouds as they approached the northern parts of Catalina, Charoleau Gap and Oracle yesterday. How cold were those clouds? Bases were at 10,000 feet, just above Mt. Sara Lemmon, at about… Continue reading Well hung, that virga yesterday…
FROPA! (plus some corrections in red….)
2:26 AM, Catalina: S- (light snow), 33.9 F, 0.01 inches so far. Precip not registering on Wunderground map site for some reason. 3:20 AM: S– (very light snow), 34.8 F. Temperature beginning to recover following precip, snow almost over, just a “skiff”, 0.3 inches. 6:20 AM: Total now a measly 0.02 inches, less than expected,… Continue reading FROPA! (plus some corrections in red….)
Into the cold
Today, as everyone knows, will be the last pleasant day for quite awhile, so we’d better get out and enjoy it if you can, maybe call in sick. Likely to be a couple of AZ low temperature records set over the next week. The skies will be great today, as they always are with some… Continue reading Into the cold
Clouds go round and round with a sprinkle-rain landing close by last night
One of the things I like to do when I am wrong, yesterday having predicted a trace to a few hundredths of rain last night from that disturbance going by to the south, is to spend a LOT of time talking about how close I was. Its true the zuperkomputer, the Beowulf Cluster, at our… Continue reading Clouds go round and round with a sprinkle-rain landing close by last night
Upper low passing to south; clouds to wrap around overhead from the southeast and east this evening
Backdoor rain? Looks like any chance of rain will happen later this afternoon through overnight as mainly mid-level clouds twist around our low from the east. That low is now over Yuma, AZ, and the center will pass to the south of us tonight. We don’t see that happen too often. Here’s a nice… Continue reading Upper low passing to south; clouds to wrap around overhead from the southeast and east this evening
“You’re really not going to like it”
The above, a quote from Douglas Adam’s hypersupercomputer, “Deep Thought”, from the 1980s classic sci-fi radio series, “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”, spoken by DT as he prepares to give the answer to “life and everything.” In the context of the computing grandeur of DT, as one website quotes, “Don’t even mention these”: The Milliard Gargantubrain… Continue reading “You’re really not going to like it”
Rain, snow (s), extreme cold ahead in mod run (pretty worked up today)
Was going to rest brain today, not blog-blab, but then went to mods; brain rest over. “Holy Smokes!”, “Good Grief!”, my modest brain erupted with when perusing the 00 Z1 (5 PM AST) WRF-GFS model run this early AM. If the predicted features verfify over the next 15 days, what appears to happen beyond that,… Continue reading Rain, snow (s), extreme cold ahead in mod run (pretty worked up today)