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Cloudy with Stratocumulus; 0.11 inches in the bucket so far
Here’s your cloud day for yesterday, a fairly complex day for your cloud diary entries:
Intermittent R- to R– expected during the day today. Hoping for a quarter inch (forecast to friends early yesterday morning, 0.225 inches; will be ecstatic if more falls. Latest AZ mod has about that amount here, and over half an inch in the Catalinas. Usually, though, those amounts are on the high side. On the other hand, if the details about where the the rain band shown below are off a bit, we could do far better than the 0.10 to 0.25 inches predicted. Here’s the accumulated precip predicted for today from that model:
Next rain threat continues for the 12th, plus or minus a day.
The End
By Art Rangno
Retiree from a group specializing in airborne measurements of clouds and aerosols at the University of Washington (Cloud and Aerosol Research Group). The projects in which I participated were in many countries; from the Arctic to Brazil, from the Marshall Islands to South Africa.