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The endless chatter of weather.

AZ Snowbowl reports lift tickets are sold out for 2/13 and 2/14, perhaps related to the predicted 15 inches of snow for the same time? I would think a huge storm was coming with the weekend being sold out before it gets going. What do I know.

There's a limited number of tickets available due to Covid protocols and they've been selling out weekends even before there was any natural snow on the mountain and only a few trails open. I wouldn't read too far into it.

I saw a thing on the tiktoks saying it's a little chilly in some parts of the extended hazworld.

@chumley
yeah it is only 59 here in Fountain Hills right now...brrrr

We've got a string of six storms coming over the next ten days. It's not especially cold here, despite what they weatherpeople say.

Hit -27.4 F in Limon, Colorado yesterday. Not too often the helicopter gets grounded for low temps. [ youtube video ]

90s Flashback!
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(5 yrs ago today ... still the earliest 90 day at PHX)

sneakySASQUATCH wrote: ↑Feb 15 2021 10:29 am Hit -27.4 F in Limon, Colorado yesterday. Not too often the helicopter gets grounded for low temps. [ youtube video ]

I'm glad it's not that cold here, but I think I'd rather have the cold than the snow. How's life these days?

@big_load Good! We’ve had a cold snap last week and quite a bit of snow. Kids finished off the hybrid igloo as a warming hut for the backyard sled hill. I was glad I was at work for the cold snap. Basically, I earned money sleeping EMS since the weather was not flyable almost the entire week.

NWS reports February to have been the driest since the dawn of time at PHX, Yuma, and El Centro. This goes back to even before humans or records because zero is zero even if there was nobody around to record it.

I have been watering the cactii in my front and back yard every month or so. First time I have felt the need to do that. My neighbor has like 20 saguaros in his yard of varying size and they are starting to look thin and a couple of the big ones are starting to lean.

Watered our saguaros for the first time in 23 years last week.

We've had a couple of small wildfires around here this month. Plus for the first time that I can recall, a perma-haze like Phoenix has in the winter down here in Tucson for the past month. My allergies and asthma are going nuts.

The current data seems to align with typical results of a La Niña winter.
It does not bode well for Arizona.

It's official: this was the snowiest February in NJ history. It hit 60F today after a couple nights in the teens. It's been 10-15F below average for the last couple weeks.

big_load wrote:the snowiest February inNJ history

Since it was admitted to the Union in 1787, or going back to when the Lenape called it Scheyichbi?

Weather geeks rush in where fools fear to tread.

chumley wrote: ↑Mar 09 2021 8:55 pm

big_load wrote:the snowiest February inNJ history

Since it was admitted to the Union in 1787, or going back to when the Lenape called it Scheyichbi?

I'm guessing to about the 1870s.

A fair amount of rain overnight in Pima County. I see that Phoenix had a decent March total over the last 2 days, also. Not like last year, but 1/3 of an inch to 7/10ths, being common down here, and similar over parts of the Valley.

Snowbowl reports a 28 inch storm total, which is usually pretty good for early Spring up there.

Looks like some decent snow on Wasson and other local mountains. Maybe a foot or more visible in the General Store Webcam on Mt Lemmon.

Jim_H wrote:Snowbowl reports a 28 inch storm total

That's nothing compared to the 185" at Fort Valley!