Onset of the Big Storm

Here at the house things were fairly quiet overnight - some sprinkles before sunrise and a trace of rain since yesterday at 7 am. The ALERT gauges show, however, that substantial precipitation has begun again over the mountains, with Marshall Gulch in the Catalinas reporting over an inch of rain during the past 3 hours. This morning's 250 mb chart shows the very strong jetstream with the core from the Pacific eastward across Arizona and New Mexico. Here in Arizona heaviest precipitation during past 24 hours was over western and northern parts of the state and I noted a number of reports of more than an inch of rain - even Yuma had almost an inch of precipitation. It appears that almost nothing that could happen within the next 36 hours that isn't covered by a warning of some type - so we'll just observe what the storms brings to us!