About real clouds, weather, cloud seeding and science autobio life stories by WMO consolation prize-winning meteorologist, Art Rangno
Cumulus humilis and distant icy tops
3:05 PM. Classic Cumulus humilis (aka, “pancakeus”). Its not a bad thing to be humilis.4:03 PM. Here you got yer corral, yer horse poop and pee (dark area of soil in foreground), and off on the NW-N horizon, glaciating Cumulus tops; shallow Cbs most likely. Some rain up that way, of course. Don’t needa radar once you detect that ice. You did detect it didn’t you?
In case you don’t believe me again, see below! You can also find a few small amounts here in the USGS network.
24 h radar-derived precip totals for AZy (from WSI Intellicast) denoted by bluish regions. Not much more than a tenth was reported in USGS gauges, which is what’s indicated here by radar.
Today
More bigger Cu, likely some ice/virga visible. U of AZ mod thinks rain will be to the east and south of us. Darn. But, if you’re horny for rain, might be worth a family trip to, say, Douglas, take in a few drops. Nice town, Douglas.
WAY ahead
Big changes still ahead, though lately mod runs haven’t had as big of a wet change here as I would like to see, so not reporting on that.
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.
