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joebartels wrote:smilie is incorrect, not enough water for tears

Could the HAZ forum be programmed to accept standard unicode v8 emoji? There are several good crying emoji to choose from. (But HAZ features many great smilies that aren't in the emoji standard). :FG:

It could be programmed. The hassle to rewards ratio looks bleak, especially with future broken code.

The smilie was the best I could convey the thought. I looked for a photo of Linda punching a hole through a wall to no avail.

Linda, as in me??? I don't think I've ever punched a wall, I wouldn't want to risk breaking a nail. There are probably recent pics on my fb page of me melting into a sad puddle of makeup and sunblock--those are real gems. With this toasty weather, I have started my annual campaign of begging for a second home up in the forest. Luckily for my husband, he's deaf to the sound of my voice, but one of these years I will be successful.

@lindaagm

@lindaagm
yeah, when I saw the 15 day forecast that was the vision that ran through my mind based on your recent enjoyment of the heat

I like dry heat, not stretches of 110+
Seems a few years ago we broke some record consecutive stretch. Hopefully that doesn't happen again. The tail end of the 15 day has clouds building. Which seems typical as the night of the 4th is often ( maybe 30% ? ) a flop due to storms.

@joebartels I just can't handle heat. I keep checking the forecast about three or four times a day, and foolishly hoping for a dramatic change. Then, a couple of days ago, they threw in a 40% chance of rain for Tuesday. I knew it was too good to be true, but I wanted to believe it. Then, when I looked a few hours later, it was gone--of course. I may have dropped my head and shed a tear or two out of despair. Now I am holding out hope for some clouds in a couple of weeks--anything to break the monotony of sun and blue skies.

lindaagm wrote:they threw in a 40% chance of rain for Tuesday. I knew it was too good to be true, but I wanted to believe it.

HAZ doesn't embed gifs ... But it might not be too far fetched!
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Wow, the NWS point forecast for Baldy has a 50% chance of storms for Wednesday. I was already leaning away from that thanks to the Cedar Fire, not wanting to travel, blah, blah, blah, but early thunderstorms.....sealed the deal!

@chumley I was looking at the radar earlier, it was so nice to see that on there. Maybe we will get some rain tomorrow afterall. At the very least, I was the dork taking pictures of clouds this evening, and posting them to ig just because there aren't enough cloud pics on there already...

The Phoenix area record for consecutive days at or above 110 is 18 days, set in 1974. We are currently at 4 days, but if the 15 day forecast holds true, we could tie or break that record.

If that happens, we really will need a sad/crying girl emoji.

@lindaagm
Don't worry, a surge of moisture will likely sandbag that run at a record. But if not, then this is my reaction:

It poured rain in some areas in and around Flagstaff today. Very scattered thundershowers. It rained on me today when I was kayaking at East Clear Creek near Winslow, also.

@chumley
Thought I would check my camping thermometer against my official backyard Davis unit. Turns out it is doing pretty well on the extremes after watching it for a couple days. Reads 2 degrees too high on maximum temperatures and the same on minimums. That is what I would have expected as the solar shield is smaller. So now I will apply a -2 degree correction to the observed high temps based on the test. I rigged that camping unit radiation shield using spare parts I had laying around. Turns out it is fairly "acu or rite" after all.

@rwstorm
How's your rain gauge? Was it forecast to drop magic sky water in the old pueblo today, or is that a surprise?

@chumley
Rain gauge(s) at the ready! Not really a surprise to me to see this morning's debris cloudiness/sprinkles rolling in from the storm complex last night over Sonora (that's the "sandbag" part that I like ). Check out Bob Maddox's Madweather blog.

Raining hard enough now that I might just get measurable (.01 or more) out of this.

Update: stayed just a trace.

whip out the parka for friday

98 high / 60% chance of uncontrollable joy

Magic sky water!

If the storms are the result of a monsoonal flow, but we haven't yet had three days of 55 degree dew points ... is it still a monsoon storm?

I feel like we've had a few 55+ defined monsoon starts in June that I can recall, but I don't recall it ever resulting in valley rain this early.

Must be el niño.

@chumley
I vote monsoon, but we still need a surge of deep moisture from the Gulf of California to complete the picture.