Wasn’t going to blather about clouds and weather for a few days since there wasn’t any, just sit around and wait for those end of November storms to get here, then regale you with cloudy pictures. But when I went to the NOAA spaghetti factory just now, I was blown away, beside myself, when I… Continue reading Snowbirds to be upset by snow and cold in early December
Category: The weather WAY ahead (10 days or more)
May to continue into November
Sure, there’s a bit cooler weather heading our way in the next few days, but “May” will reappear after that, and people will be complaining again that they evacuated their domiciles in northern climes or high altitude sites too early when they returned to their winter homes in Arizona. I am hearing a lot of… Continue reading May to continue into November
Rain chances during last week of October maintaining
Well, I think so, anyway, and those rain chances seem to carry right into the first week of November. I think you can see that in these graphics from NOAA based on last night’s global data. As in “Where’s Waldo”, can you find the State of Arizona? The US? The End (of this update)
Check it out!
Since my risky forecast, and going beyond professional standards of some days ago seems to be working out, I thought I would update you on it. Of course, if it was not working out, you would hear nothing more about it. Below, for October 29th, as rendered by IPS MeteoStar. We seem to be in… Continue reading Check it out!
October 2016 to close out with rain!
Threat! (omitted portion of the headline above) Check this out: You got yer ridgy flow on the top (“top” meaning, “Canada”, around where that yellow line humps toward the north) and yer broadly cyclonic flow on the bottom (“bottom” meaning, “Baja Cal and Mexico”) that is, across the whole western part of North America. This… Continue reading October 2016 to close out with rain!
A September thunder, rainbow, and interesting cloud extravaganza (i. e., too many cloud photos for one day but it deserved it)
Welcome to one of the great cloud blogs of our time today, great as in volume, not in eloquence or anything like that. \ A humorous final note: Here are two model runs only 6 h apart from last evening. The first one, from 5 PM AST global data, valid on the 26th, brings that… Continue reading A September thunder, rainbow, and interesting cloud extravaganza (i. e., too many cloud photos for one day but it deserved it)
Powerful hurricane to not enter Arizona even though the model shows this happening; horse story
Many of you probably were gasping for air after having seen the WRF-GFS model outputs from last evening’s 5 PM AST global data. A large hurricane, really more the size of its typhoonic big brothers in the western north Pacific, and one that also dwarfs the late tropical remnant, “Newton” , that came through here… Continue reading Powerful hurricane to not enter Arizona even though the model shows this happening; horse story
Phantasmagorical?
This September 8-10 model-projected Arizona deluge caused by a dying tropical storm? Then followed by four more days of rain around here? Probably. But you wait a lifetime to see model outputs like this, and so I’m going to save it here, even if it is “fantastic”, “phantasmagorical”, surely imaginary in a sense, is… Continue reading Phantasmagorical?
More cool days ahead after hot spell
Wasn’t going to blog today Mom’s Day in case you forgot, but got pretty excited when I saw this just now. You will, too. As purported earlier, this May might not be so bad, sans a coupla hot spells. So, hang on when it gets hot, relief is likely on the way! Weak Cumulonimbus clouds… Continue reading More cool days ahead after hot spell
Rain follows the jet
0.02 inches of it, anyway, as the core of the jet stream at 18,000 feet or so passed by Catalina yesterday afternoon. Keep your eye on the orange and reddish streak in these progs from IPS MeteoStar yesterday morning beginning at 5 AM AST and how it slides over us as the clouds began to… Continue reading Rain follows the jet