View from campus at 0737 am MST this morning shows rain over north part of city, obscuring foothills and mountains.
Plot of detected CG flashes for 24-hours ending at 1433 UTC (0733 am - above from Atmo) this morning shows numerous flashes over our part of Pima County.
ALERT data for 24-hours ending at 7:50 am (above and below) shows numerous sites exceeding an inch and two very heavy amounts toward southwest end of the Catalinas. The airport reported 1.29"; DM had 1.25"; we had 1.10" here; and Atmo reported only 0.69". I estimate that about 0.60" fell here before midnight, with about 0.50" after midnight.
QPF plumes from SPC (above) keep the rain going at the airport through rest of day, and then shut things down for a couple of days. The morning 500 mb analysis (plagued by all the missing sites) indicates a broad, inverted trough across the south half of Arizona. Finally, a nice event breaks the dry spell that covered most of first half of July.