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The endless chatter of weather.

Page, Show Low, and Winslow had their hottest year on record. Flagstaff and Prescott had the second hottest.

FLG put together a document with a bunch of interesting year-end data.

PHX will reach the second-longest spell without rain by the end of the week. If it continues through the end of the month, we will break the record. The last measurable rainfall at the airport was on August 22nd.

FLG reports much of northern Arizona is experiencing the driest start to winter since records have been kept. Upon seeing the stats, I recall that '05-'06 winter for being snowless on the SF Peaks in January.

Yay.

Here's hoping it'll dampen up in the spring.

@azbackpackr
I hope for that but I'm also just a bit happy it's actually hoodie weather in phoenix finally.

A March Miracle event could occur for Arizona, as happened in 2006, but damp and spring are not what typically go together. Windy and dry, sure.

Cities with more snowfall this season than Flagstaff include Houston, Beaumont, Lafayette, New Orleans, Mobile, and Pensacola. Tallahassee, Savannah, and Charleston might get there too!

A light dusting of rain at the Neal estate.

@Alston_Neal I saw that Channel 5 has gone into 24/7 live continuing coverage of the First Weather Impact Alert Warning with reporters stationed across the valley in hopes of capturing an actual raindrop on camera. Jim Cantore is apparently en route.

Lots of cloud in NPHX, no rain.
Clouds are dead to me.
Weather people are dead to me.
My plants are dead to me.
My daughter is lucky she waters herself at this point, so I guess she's not dead to me.

Snowing at our kid's house in Cottonwood.

@Alston_Neal
WHAT! You have offspring?

@The_Eagle
I prefer the term spawn.

With 0.01" of rain this morning at PHX, the airport will fall one day short of the longest streak without measurable rain in the record books. It's quite enjoyable out there if you're the type of person who revels in outdoor things

@chumley
I was very confused when I saw wet dog prints on the floor this morning after my wife let him out. It's been so long I just forgot what that looks like

Looks like areas around Tucson got a wide variety of totals for yesterday including 2.17 for "Rincon," but mostly less than an inch. (By "Rincon" I think they meant Rincon Valley, in far NE Tucson, which tends to get more rain than the rest of the valley. I don't think they meant the other "census designated" place called Rincon, on the Tohono O'odham Reservation.) Looks like Bisbee got over an inch. There must have been some very localized downpours. "Rincon" means "corner" in Spanish, and I've always thought that it rains more there because of how the clouds pile up in that corner where the Catalinas meet the Rincons. @Jim_H might have an opinion about this?
https://www.kvoa.com/news/unofficial-ra ... b2f21.html

Here in Yuma we got lots of sunshine, and a light breeze. It only reached 66 degrees, necessitating wearing a fleece while biking.

@azbackpackr
Opinion? I'm confused. It isn't July of 2019, so..... yeah.

@azbackpackr
Some of those numbers are bogus or in error. Only light amounts were observed in the Tucson area, mostly a tenth of an inch or less (I had 0.08). The airport had 0.10 not .90. No way 2.15 is real. On the map product below, choose 3 day totals from the menu on left side.

https://alertmap.rfcd.pima.gov/gmap/gmap.html

The article may say, "Rainfall Totals from Yesterday", but the yesterday for that article was over 5 years ago.

Here is another product showing more detail about precip amounts for Southeast AZ from the latest storm.
https://forecast.weather.gov/product.ph ... roduct=PNS

It looks like the high pressure ridge that's been keeping Northern California dry for the last 3+ weeks has broken down so we are expecting some nice precipitation over the next week, and I hope that helps get some more precip to Arizona. It was depressingly dry when I was in Phoenix over the holidays so I can't imagine what it's like now.