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Heavist rain in EONS yesterday!
Posted: Sat Aug 12, 2006 8:56 am
by azsnowman
The monsoon season went into OVERDRIVE yesterday, a staggering 3.10" fell in 2.5 hours yesterday causing MAJOR street, small stream and urban flooding.....the 3.10" put us WELL over the average to date of 6", I'm now at 8.76" and MORE to come today
Hail depth recorded at the house around 1600 hrs. measured 2", hail depth at the offical recording station was 2.5"....needless to say, it was ONE heckuva storm
Posted: Sat Aug 12, 2006 10:18 am
by Aquawind
Nice.. 10 more years of this and the drought may be forgotten..
Oh boy.. Steve is gonna set me straight on this one..
Nice storm Dennis!
Posted: Sat Aug 12, 2006 6:41 pm
by Aslkahuna
There has been some relief from the drought with areas of AZ that have seen heavy rains going from Extreme or Exceptional down to Moderate. If we could sustain above normal precipitation anomalies through the Fall and Winter and next year's monsoon we could make a real serious dent in the precipitation deficits. This is our 10th year and these 20 year Droughts tend to last about 10 years or so so hopefully we are seeing the end. However, I won't go on that bandwagon just yet. I want to see a wet September and October as well.
Steve
Posted: Sun Aug 13, 2006 9:43 am
by bob rulz
That sounds like my kind of weather. I estimate that I got a good 1 inch of rain yesterday over about 2 hours, and there was some pretty vicious lightning (although it wasn't frequent, it's just what was there was pretty powerful). We also got a good 10 minutes of quarter-sized hail (hail of any size is rare here for more than a couple of minutes). But really, that weather sounds very nice! It's been a pretty wet monsoon season up here, as well, and I love it.
Posted: Sun Aug 13, 2006 5:31 pm
by azsnowman
Another 1.92" in 30 MINUTES today
and there's MO' on the WAY
I'm WAY over average with todays cell. This has been a VERY wet, VERY productive monsoon season.....Steve, keep your fingers crossed, this COULD be it
Posted: Sun Aug 13, 2006 7:27 pm
by Stephanie
Aslkahuna wrote:There has been some relief from the drought with areas of AZ that have seen heavy rains going from Extreme or Exceptional down to Moderate. If we could sustain above normal precipitation anomalies through the Fall and Winter and next year's monsoon we could make a real serious dent in the precipitation deficits. This is our 10th year and these 20 year Droughts tend to last about 10 years or so so hopefully we are seeing the end. However, I won't go on that bandwagon just yet. I want to see a wet September and October as well.
Steve
I hope this is the beginning of the end. I'm very pleased for all of you that this one seems to be a good one - FINALLY!
