Friday, August 16, 2019

Dry And Hot Continues


Clear and dry skies again this morning.  Visible satellite image below from 7:00 am MST shows large portion of all the West is also clear this morning.



Morning forecast from NWS (above) remains very dismal. The morning sounding is quite dry with only 0.74" of PW and no CAPE. 

Below is ALERT rainfall for past 30 days ending at 7:00 am this morning. Plot shows the high variability of convective rainfall - over northern 2/3rds of network one site was less than half an inch while many sites in main metro had less than an inch. Highest 30 day amount was at the Whitetail gauge in the Catalinas with over 8 inches. Here at house we've had 2.23" during the past month - actually wetter than many sites in the northwest portion of ALERT network. One site in the City had over 4 inches. In the southern third of network (not shown) Elephant Head had over 4 inches.

No significant changes to large scale pattern in sight yet. Try to stay cool.





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