The 9 am (MLK Day 16, January 2012) webcam shot up at Summerhaven on Mt. Lemmon (above) looks like they had a sloppy, wet snowfall during the night. Down here in the north part of Tucson we had light showers that began during midafternoon yesterday, and light rain during the night. Data from the Pima County ALERT network indicate a widespread event with almost complete areal coverage of measurable precipitation, but with amounts mostly less than half an inch. There were 13 stations, on and near the Catalinas, that had more than half an inch and one station on the north side of the mountains with over an inch. Here at the house the gauge has 0.26" in it this morning. So, we avoided, just barely, going longer than a month with no rainfall. Just looked at the latest ALERT map (below) for the Catalinas, and it is now showing three stations with more than inch of rainfall.
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