Showers Last Evening
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13h ago
Storm in foothills at 4:50 pm MST yesterday afternoon. This one skipped by to our east, but there were heavy showers later, around 7:00 to 7:30 pm at the house. View at bottom is looking toward Redington Pass at 5:25 am this morning. There were only isolated CG flashes in eastern Pima County yesterday. Above plot shows flashes detected through 0833 UTC this early morning (from Atmo and Vaisala). Graphic below shows 24-hour rainfall amounts ending at 15 UTC this morning (from Univ. of Utah). Here at house we had 0.12". GEFS plumes from 06 UTC runs (above) are for precipitation at the air ..read more
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Showers Here Again
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3d ago
View toward the Rincons at 6:15 am MST shows a bit of color. Light rains fell over much of the lower elevation Alert sites during the past 24-hours ending at 7:30 am this morning (above and below). Here at the house there were showers late in the afternoon and a couple of times during the night. Gauge showed 0.11" this morning. Plot of detected CG flashes (above for 24-hours ending at 0803 UTC this morning) shows that most thunderstorm activity avoided the metro area. The 06 UTC QPF plumes (below) suggest that a more significant event may develop for the first day or two of April. F ..read more
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Update Midday Sunday
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3d ago
Snowy morning up in Summerhaven - view above is from 9:50 am MST. ALERT plots (above and below) show rain amounts across the network for 24-hour period ending at 6:00 am this morning. Note that rain event occurred mostly from 3 to 5 am, early this morning. Here the house we had 0.25", as did Atmo; the airport reported 0.30" and DM had 0.36". Plot of detected CG flashes (second below - from Atmo and Vaisala) is for 24-hours ending at 1703 UTC this morning. There were thunderstorms in Pima County but they mostly avoided the metro area. Note that the airport did record a wind gust to 45 mph a ..read more
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Showers Beginning Sunday
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5d ago
View to the east at 6:20 am MST this morning. Forecast for 500 mb valid at 06 UTC on 25 March from the 06 UTC GFS run last night. Strong short-wave is across Arizona to west of San Diego. QPF plumes for the airport from the 06 UTC GEFS runs, with several periods of rain indicated from early Sunday through through Tuesday. There a large range in the amounts of almost an inch. Plumes for temperature (above) indicate strong cooling starting Saturday night, but with recovery to warm temperatures by end of the week. Plumes for wind (below) indicate several periods of strong winds during the w ..read more
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Showers Possible On Weekend
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1w ago
View looking toward Rincons/Redington Pass at 6:15 am MST this morning. GEFS plumes from 06 UTC for QPF. Showers indicated as likely Sunday into first part of next week.  Plumes for wind (above) and temperature (below) indicate windy on the weekend. Plumes for temperature calling for much cooler on Sunday and Monday. At bottom is 00 UTC graphic for precipitation through 5:00 am on March 25th ..read more
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Quick Summary
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1w ago
View of Table Mountain and Finger Rock at 7:40 am MST this morning. Plot of detected CG flashes yesterday (above - from Atmo and Vaisala) for 24-hours ending at 0803 UTC today. There were just a few flashes in Pima County, but TUS and DM both noted thunder around 6:00 pm. Precipitation reports from the ALERT network (above and below for 24-hours ending at 7:30 am this morning. Amounts were generally light, with a bit of a donut hole over metro Tucson. Here at the house there were off-and-on showers that left only 0.03" in the gauge; TUS had 0.01" while Atmo and DM both reported 0.04 ..read more
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Showers West Of Metro Area
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1w ago
View of pre-sunrise colors looking toward the Rincons at 6:35 am MST this morning. View at bottom is looking toward the Catalinas at 6:40 am. At 500 mb this morning (above) the closed low is centered somewhere near Yuma. The low is forecast to linger over Arizona into early next week. The GFS forecast below is valid at 00 UTC on St. Patrick's Day. This morning there are showers west of interstates, that are moving rapidly northward. The precipitation forecast from the 12 UTC WRF-RR (below) is valid for the period ending at midnight tonight. Widespread rain/snow covers all of Pima County ..read more
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Showers Likely Tomorrow
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1w ago
View of Rincons before sunrise this morning. Analysis for 500 mb at 12 UTC this morning (from SPC). Note that closed circulation is actually over southwest Utah, rather position indicated on analysis. Forecast from 06 UTC GFS (below) moves the low center to southwest Arizona  by 12 UTC tomorrow morning. Plumes from the GEFS for the 06 UTC runs - above for QPF at airport and below T at the airport. Most of rain event is forecast during the day tomorrow. Temperatures drop considerably for tomorrow also. Forecast above is from the 12 UTC WRF-RR run at Atmo - shown is precipitation fo ..read more
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Showers Possible By End Of Week
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2w ago
View looking toward Rincons/Redington Pass at 6:55 am MST this morning. The GEFS plumes for rainfall amounts at airport (from 06 UTC runs - above) indicate showery periods into early next week. Note the wide range of values and timing, so things are a bit uncertain at this time. The plumes from same runs for winds (below) indicate the possibility of some gustiness and stronger speeds for tomorrow and Thursday. The GFS 500 mb forecast (above from 06 UTC run shows a strong, closed low over Arizona and southern California at 12 UTC on the 15th (Friday). The precipitation forecast from the ..read more
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Winter Summaries
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2w ago
Nasty driving conditions on I-10 morning of February 28th. Winter overview - Rainfall here at house was 4.74" for December through February. This was the third wettest winter season here since 1999. Wettest winter was 2007/08 with 5.75", and second wettest was 2019/20 with 5.05". For comparison, the driest winters here have been: 1999/00 with 0.31"; 2021/22 with 0.61"; and 2013/14 with 0.67 ..read more
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