It's raining, It's pouring (well....kinda)

[azsnowman]

WOOOOOHOOOOOOOOO It's been raining for a better part of 2 hours, not hard by ANY MEANS, just a nice, slow soaking rain .32" so far......check out this radar! PLUS....the temp dropped like a ROCK, from 89.8° to 52.8° right now :o


http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/radar/loop/DS.p ... kfsx.shtml


Dennis

[David]

Lucky, lucky. Enjoy your rain while you can.

[Aslkahuna]

of the day here, but they are all high basers and we've had only a trace of rain. Lots of lightning though. Looking at the wind profile and other parameters, had we had more moisture in the lower levels we would be in a very nasty storm situation right now.

Steve

[Colin]

Wow... that temperature sure DID drop! :o That's a 37.0°F drop! Glad you are getting the rain! Enjoy it!

[PTrackerLA]

I've always loved the mountains in the west during the summer because of the huge temperature drop when it rains. I hope you get some more out there.

[M2]

The outflow boundary from Dennis's storms just hit us about 20 minutes ago....the chimes are a-ringing. No rain - just breeze down here.

[Stephanie]

Well, I hope you guys in the four corners area do start receiving nice soaking rains as Dennis was experiencing when the monsoon finally kicks in. I know that Aslkahuna has been stating that this drought will continue, but I'll still hope for you anyway!

[Aslkahuna]

regardless of how it turns out, it's the WINTER rains and snowpack that will determine the status of the Drought and no one in the local Met Community believes that they will turn around anytime soon. A negative PDO results, on average, 17% less winter rainfall than normal while a La Nina also adds a negative factor so when you combine both as is expected this coming winter, chances are not good for any relief from the Drought. Also, I am still not expecting that good of a monsoon as of yet-one factor that's a big ? is the fact that the SOI (Southern Oscillation Index) is still negative despite the cool SST anomalies in the Eastern Equatorial Pacific. Negative SOIs and Nina's do not go together so we haven't entirely cleared out of the Nino yet and a post Nino monsoon around here tends to start late though it's not necessarily a major dry monsoon although the 1998 monsoon (1998 in general though not intensity resembles the Pacific patterns we have now) was pitiful.

Steve

[weatherlover427]

You sure needed that! Hope it keeps up!

[azsnowman]

*sigh* your just full of good news Steve "LOL!" Just kidding, SHEEESH......with the nonsoons looking pretty grim and the outlook for winter ever worse, WTH are we gonna do, hell, 99,9% of the forests are dead from fire, drought, beetles etc, etc *shakes his head and hangs it in shame* By the time the pattern returns to normal or should I say "IF" it ever returns to normal, it won't matter, rain and snow on sand doesn't do a bit of good *sigh*

Dennis