View of Catalinas above is from 3 pm MST yesterday afternoon, as a rain shower was moving across the north part of town. Places at low elevations that had rain measured light amounts - here at house 0.04", the airport and Atmo 0.02", and DM just a trace. Best precipitation amounts occurred at higher elevations from the Catalinas northward. Map below shows 24-h rain amounts over the Catalinas, where some amounts reached over 0.75". The light amounts at low elevations evaporated pretty quickly, once the sun came out later in the afternoon. Across the ALERT network 37 of 92 sites reported rainfall - but the low resolution (0.04" is smallest amount measured) of the sensors means that coverage was actually higher than indicated.
The winds were quite strong with gusts of 35 to 45 mph common across most of Arizona. Strongest gusts occurred over far southeast Arizona, where there was little precipitation. Douglas and Ft. Huachuca reported gusts to 55 mph and Safford had 54 mph. The airport had max gusts of 44 mph. The RAWS data feed apparently failed at mid-afternoon yesterday, so those data are not available this morning.
Quite cool this morning for late April - low at house was 38F.
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