We were away yesterday and did not experience much of Tucson's weather event, except the ending around dusk. Out northwest of Sonoita, Saturday was cold with strong winds and dust, and there were a few spits of light rain and mist from the heavy clouds. When we left a bit after 4 pm there had not been measurable rainfall. In fact, it appears that far southeastern Arizona had mostly winds from this event - I see that the Guthrie RAWS site had gusts to 67 mph and Ft. Huachuca had gusts to 54 mph during the day.
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Here in Tucson area the event panned out a bit better than indicated by the last model forecasts I saw. Amounts were much better at higher elevations with some reports of 0.50 to 1.00"+ (snow amounts were probably significant for this time of year). Here in the actual Tucson metro area amounts ranged from around 0.15 to a bit less than 0.50". It appears that 100% of the ALERT GAUGES had rainfall - so, for most spots at lower elevations this was the best general rain event so far in 2011. Here at the house we had 0.36" with a morning low of 34F. Atmo reported 0.39". Views above show fog (a rarity here also) shrouding the campus this morning, and that the event produced some snow on Kitt Peak.
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