Here at the house we had two periods of very light showers yesterday - one early afternoon and then one around 9:00 pm MST. Combined these left only 0.02" of rain in the gauge at 5:00 am this morning. But it is raining again (at 6:00 am) as two showers have moved off the Tucson Mountains into parts of the metro area - above shows TUS composite radar echoes at 6:00 am MST.
At 5:00 am only 16 of the ALERT network stations had measured rainfall (remember that amounts less than 0.04" are below the precision of the gauges used and report as 0.00). Most of these sites were off in the southwest sector of the network - above. Gauge near Sasabe had greatest total at 0.31". Further west in Pima County amounts were heavier - Sells at 0.37" and some MesoWest sites coming in over half an inch. So, widespread rainfall over southeast Arizona, but with amounts being very light - perhaps a better event at end of this week?
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