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So far in Payson today we have received just about 1/2 an inch of Rain!!!! Let it rain!!! \:D/

It's too bad that people here forget how to drive when they see rain.

Received(ing) about a half foot in Ahwatukee, weather guys say the "heavy" stuff should arrive after 5pm

Current Radar on the home screen is going nuts!

(voices from above clapping out hallelujah in bone chilling shrieking high tones)
The Superstitions will be a labyrinth of twisted desert and flowing creeks.
Let there be desert! Let there be life! HAZ 1:1

joe bartels wrote:Received(ing) about a half foot in Ahwatukee, weather guys say the "heavy" stuff should arrive after 5pm

You have received 6 inches already??? WOW! We have had slow and steady rain all day so far and it is .7 inches here. And is soaking good into the ground. We will see what we get since we are under a flash flood watch. It is coming down about .25 inches an hour or so my rain gauge says.

wildflowers in May \:D/

te-wa wrote:wildflowers in May \:D/

I think here in the AZ desert it is in March and April. Hopefully we do we could use a nice display.

Dschur wrote:You have received 6 inches already??? WOW!

give or take 5.5 inches ;-)

Better whip out some coasters, all but forgot about condensation

Up to 1.5 inches here in Payson.... What is humidity??? Isn't it a dry heat???

I'm glad it waited until I was gone. Rain threatened a couple times when my rental car was parked places where it could have been stranded for a while.

1.65" in my tempe yard this morning.

sorry to see the snow levels didn't come down. sunrise webcam looks like even at 9300 feet it's only been snowing for a little while. nws had originally forecasted 28-40 inches of snow above 9000 ... i don't think that happened.

chriscreek webcam looks like some nice runoff though. 3.58" there is a nice total.

Well there is 3 inches in our rain gauge her in Payson. Still is thundering and raining outside very light sprinkles right now...

I just got back from Jacks Canyon near Winslow. I drove up there yesterday in the rain. All of the creeks and drainages that pass under the Beeline were flowing real good. The East Verde was raging! There were quite a few waterfalls coming off the Mogollon Rim as well. Really cool. A little bit of snow up there as well. Saturday night was more of a wind event than rain. Today was freakin' gorgeous; totally sunny and warm...perfect for a few hard rock climbs and getting engaged.

Sorry. Had to throw that in there.

gratz

sounds like a hard rock life, congratulations!

Four Peaks might get some snow tonight!

joe bartels wrote:Four Peaks might get some snow tonight!

Looks like this is what the NWS is saying right now...
.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

A STRONG STORM SYSTEM IS BEGINNING TO MOVE ACROSS NORTHERN ARIZONA
TODAY. THE STRONG WINDS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON
FOR MUCH OF NORTHERN ARIZONA ESPECIALLY ALONG AND DOWNWIND OF THE
MOGOLLON RIM...INCLUDING THE LITTLE COLORADO RIVER VALLEY. SNOW
AND BLOWING SNOW WILL IMPACT THE KAIBAB PLATEAU THROUGH EARLY
SATURDAY MORNING.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY

THIS STORM SYSTEM WILL CONTINUE TO IMPACT NORTHERN ARIZONA THROUGH
WEDNESDAY WITH MUCH COLDER TEMPERATURES AND SNOW LEVELS DOWN TO AS
LOW AS 4000 FEET BY SATURDAY NIGHT. THERE IS EXPECTED TO BE A
DECREASE IN PRECIPITATION SATURDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH SUNDAY
MORNING WITH SCATTERED SHOWERS. ANOTHER WAVE OF STEADY
PRECIPITATION IS EXPECTED MOVE ACROSS THE STATE ON SUNDAY
AFTERNOON. SHOWERY PRECIPITATION IS EXPECTED MONDAY AFTERNOON
BEFORE THE THIRD AND FINAL WAVE OF STEADY PRECIPITATION MOVES
ACROSS THE STATE TUESDAY NIGHT INTO WEDNESDAY.

My view of 4peaks is obscured this morning, but there's a fresh blanket of thick wet snow covering every surface as low as Christopher Creek. Doesn't look like it in Payson though. (dschur?)

I'm headed up to cut a tree today and will let you know how it goes up there!

In case anyone is wondering, Peralta Road was flash flooding @3 feet this morning about a mile and a half from the trailhead and First Water and the Apache Trail were flash flooding at about a foot within a short distance of their intersection.

High clearance could probably make First Water or Apache Trail, but it was not possible on Peralta to do safely in any vehicle.

If anyone goes out there this afternoon, could you post the conditions, thanks.

I hiked upper First Water Creek this morning. Although the creek crossings on the road seemed really high, we saw several sedans make it. By the time we drove out at 4:00pm, the creek crossings on the road had lowered quite a bit. Farther upstream the creek was still running really high,though.