Tuesday, July 11, 2006

Anatomy of a monsoon storm

The following link connects to a newspaper graphic that purports to explain monsoon thunderstorms.

http://www.azstarnet.com/pdf/monsoon.pdf

It's the kind of thing that one might ask an intro class: "How many things can you find wrong on this page?" The focus on cold fronts is interesting, since most of us would love to have some really good cold fronts come by during our summer heat!

As for the box at lower right "This week's forecast:" I had no precipitation at my house (sadly one of the driest locales in the metro area) on "Today" - June 28th, but did hear thunder from a storm on the Catalina Mountains. On Thursday, Friday, and Saturday I observed both thunder and precipitation at the house.

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