Official Arizona Weather Thread

[O]

A couple more pics lookin northeast and southeast.

 

[O]

I'm just on the edge of this big dog and haven't received any rain yet, I hope I do, but the temperature has dropped dramatically.
It's almost, almost chilly outside.

 

[Linderbee]

Everything that matters to me is East of 110th Avenue

Yay!! But I'm not getting any rain, either. Nor have I gotten any really so far this season.

 

[Gee!]

This is turning out to be my monsson theme song..

In the still of the night
I held you, held you tight
cause I love, love you so
Promise Ill never let you go
In the still of the night
In the still of the night

I remember (I remember) that night in may
The stars (the stars) were bright above
Ill hope and Ill pray
To keep your precious love

Well before the light
Hold me again
With all of your might
In the still of the night
In the still of the night

So before the light
Hold me again with all of your might
In the still of the night
In the still of the night
In the still of the night

 

[O]

I've beem sitting on my porch trying to get a picture of some lightning, this is the best I could do.
It's hard to get a picture of lightning.
The second pic is of my dog. He hates storms. Usually he just hides underneath the coffee table.
When I came back inside I found him hiding in the bathtub.
I love my dog!

 

[O]

It might help if I attach the pictures.

 

[82CardsGrad]

Wow. That was a tremendous storm. I'll have to watch the news to see what the total rainfall was, but it has to be well over 2 inches...
Major flooding all over the place up here. Washes are running bigtime!

 

[BirdMan21]

Wow. That was a tremendous storm. I'll have to watch the news to see what the total rainfall was, but it has to be well over 2 inches...
Major flooding all over the place up here. Washes are running bigtime!

http://156.42.96.39/xrainmaps.html

Great site for rain guages

 

[82CardsGrad]

http://156.42.96.39/xrainmaps.html

Great site for rain guages

Cool! Thanks Birdman! It looks like I'm somewhere between 1.77 and 2.64 inches based on the closest gauges...

However, I hope the radar is wrong cuz it looks like there is more developing right over us as we speak!! Can't believe I'm saying this but enough already!!

 

[82CardsGrad]

According to that map, between 6:43pm and 7:13pm, we recevied just over 1.5 inches of rain! That's crazy!!

 

[O]

BREAKING NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Dave Munsey says El Mirage is no longer relevant!

 

[AZZenny]

My rain gauge at roughly 64th St and Dynamite, has just a fraction over 3 inches -- and for at least 15 minutes the rain was pretty much sideways. The large wash that divides my property from the neighbors' has overflowed its banks by about 8-10 inches for maybe the second time I can remember since I moved out here in 1978. It has been roaring since around 7 PM (it was raining and blowing too hard to hear it before that, but about then I started wondering "what the hell is that weird roar? Could that be a tornado?") and JUST finally started to slow down and moved within its banks at about 8:40.

The little thready wash on the other side of the house that even after the worst storms always drains dry very quickly started running heavily before 7, and was still a little stream at 8:30.

Only once or twice since 1978 has water been heavy enough draining down the little hill in my back yard that it flooded into my back patio, and not at all since I dug some drain-trenches a few years ago. But it did tonight.

And the neighbors down across the way, who expanded the little house they bought to a HUGE sprawly 'equestrian estate' home -- like something out of Spain or France -- apparently really didn't bother with all the little survey dealies as was the gossip, because they have a gushing lake no less than 100 feet across lapping at the house, as four different washes (2 major) empty into what was their big, smooth, front paddock. I AM NOT GLOATING. (It's bad Karma, they seem pleasant otherwise, and they were not the ONLY people in the immediate vicinity to ignore the natural washes.) I hope this was the 1000 year flood that our little neighborhood was warned about.

 

[AZZenny]

WOW is that a cool map!!

 

[82CardsGrad]

My rain gauge at roughly 64th St and Dynamite, has just a fraction over 3 inches -- and for at least 15 minutes the rain was pretty much sideways. The large wash that divides my property from the neighbors' has overflowed its banks by about 8-10 inches for maybe the second time I can remember since I moved out here in 1978. It has been roaring since around 7 PM (it was raining and blowing too hard to hear it before that, but about then I started wondering "what the hell is that weird roar? Could that be a tornado?") and JUST finally started to slow down and moved within its banks at about 8:40.

The little thready wash on the other side of the house that even after the worst storms always drains dry very quickly started running heavily before 7, and was still a little stream at 8:30.

Only once or twice since 1978 has water been heavy enough draining down the little hill in my back yard that it flooded into my back patio, and not at all since I dug some drain-trenches a few years ago. But it did tonight.

And the neighbors down across the way, who expanded the little house they bought to a HUGE sprawly 'equestrian estate' home -- like something out of Spain or France -- apparently really didn't bother with all the little survey dealies as was the gossip, because they have a gushing lake no less than 100 feet across lapping at the house, as four different washes (2 major) empty into what was their big, smooth, front paddock. I AM NOT GLOATING. (It's bad Karma, they seem pleasant otherwise, and they were not the ONLY people in the immediate vicinity to ignore the natural washes.) I hope this was the 1000 year flood that our little neighborhood was warned about.

I'm closer to Happy Valley and Pima, and at 10:04 pm it's still raining - lightly, but steady.
The wash in front of my home flew over it's banks... I've been here almost 7 years and have never seen this before. And I totally gt the noise thing Zenny. It's sounded like a bunch of 18 wheelers! I can't believe how fast the water is moving!
I heard that at least 10 people needed to be rescued just north of here. What a wild, wild storm!

 

[O]

I got sprinkles and a terrified dog in the central!
You guys suck!!!!

 

[Mike Olbinski]

My rain gauge at roughly 64th St and Dynamite, has just a fraction over 3 inches -- and for at least 15 minutes the rain was pretty much sideways.

 

[82CardsGrad]

My god... driving down Scottsdale Rd this morning was like driving through a War Zone! Dirt, trees, limbs, bushes and debris all over the place. Huge piles of desert tossed onto the road... amazing...
I think we ended up with close to 3 inches last night. What a storm!

 

[82CardsGrad]

Looks like a pretty decent storm taking shape south and west of the city...
Things getting cranked up a bit early today... Not surprised as it is ridiculously humid out there...

 

[82CardsGrad]

Could Avondale finally get hit today????

 

[Lefty]

Here are pictures from yesterday's huge storm here in Tucson. Unfortunately, the gentleman in the car in first picture died.

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This is at a bank's parking lot.

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[abomb]

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Anyone know what street that is?

 

[dreamcastrocks]

wow. I'd love it if it rained that much here.

 

[82CardsGrad]

wow. I'd love it if it rained that much here.

You should have been in North Scottsdale yesterday...

 

[dreamcastrocks]

You should have been in North Scottsdale yesterday...

So I've heard.

 

[82CardsGrad]

Bummer... looked like it was going to be an early start to the fireworks today, but all seems to have dried up??