Over The Weekend

We've been away this weekend in Albuquerque and our trip was much impacted by the strong 500 mb short wave that was crossing the Southwest. More on this later. Rain gauge here dry and dusty this morning but wind blown debris in car port and on front porch. Low temperature this morning a cool 56 F here at the house. It looks like winds generally gusted yesterday from 30 to 55 mph across Arizona, with strongest gusts up in the northeast part of state.

Campus webcam view of the Catalinas (above) at 7 am this morning (Monday, 23 September 2013) shows some dust suspended in the air. View at 11 am MST yesterday captured heavy clouds and some showers moving through with the short wave.

The ALERT network this morning indicates 15 sites with rainfall during past 24-hours, and these were all in the Catalina Mountains and northern part of the network. The Catalina Mountains sector is shown below. There were two severe thunderstorm reports south of Albuquerque yesterday evening and one north of the Catalinas in Pinal County - all were thunderstorms with severe winds. More later, after I tackle nearly 100 emails that have accumulated, recover my car from Tucson airport parking lot, and .........