View above from Computer Science web cam at 3:00 pm yesterday (Sunday March 7th 2010) looking toward the Catalina Mountains.
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This event has not produced nearly as much precipitation as event of a week ago. Rainfall amounts here - 0.09" at 6 am yeaterday; another 0.27" at 6 pm; and an addditional 0.04" at 6 am this morning. Total so far 0.40" with very light rain continuing here at house at 6 am. 100% coverage again for this event across ALERT network. Amounts at 6 am are generally from
around 0.30" to 0.50" with heavier amounts at higher elevations, where 5 ALERT gauges are reporting 1.00" plus amounts.
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This is the second significant storm event without radar data across southeastern Arizona and it has been greatly missed, at least here. Radar has been down 10 days now. To add insult to injury, the NWS TUS ASOS surface observing system at the airport also failed yesterday and it too remains out of service this morning.
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Finally, another BAD forecast in the Sunday paper yesterday morning - KVOA and/or AccuWeather again ignoring the NWS forecasts of 100% chance of rain and telling the soggy Star readers that there was a 60% chance of showers for Sunday. That's 3 of last 4 Sundays with really bad forecasts in the paper - the one weekend when there was no weather of any kind, except sun and warmth, is the only time the Star forecast was accurate. Way to go guys.
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