it's RAINING in Phoenix--Finally! only 143 dry days.....

[NMDemDist2]

:woohoo:

[leftyladyfrommo]

1. How much? Will it be enough to help? n/t

[NMDemDist2]

3. it's more about how much snow the mountains above Flagstaff get

and yes, they had NO snow and these wave of storms is supposed to dump over a foot, maybe two so it has to help...

as far as down here, it will clean the air which we need so bad and the cactus can fill up enough to hang on for a while more

and it's certainly better than nothing for day after day after day......

[phantom power]

16. Sounds like they've already got 30 inches in some areas.

:woohoo:

[acmejack]

5. How much do you need to catch up?

About 10 feet? I certainly am glad you are getting some, I know it was getting desperate there. Enjoy the rain! And I hope you don't really make up your deficit all at once.

[NMDemDist2]

7. no, the area rarely gets more than a foot a month or so

but we'd need several storms like this and it's pretty darn late in the year

http://www.wrcc.dri.edu/cgi-bin/cliRECtM.pl?azflag

[OKNancy]

2. May the rain be gentle

and refreshing. :hug:

[NMDemDist2]

4. nah, give me wind and lightning, pouring rain and hail

Bring it ON!!!!!!


:rofl:

[HysteryDiagnosis]

6. Your avatar..... always amazes me how a human foot can

take that sort of punishment....


http://www.engr.colostate.edu/~dga/high_speed_video/Sports%20Equipment/ballerina_pointe.wmv

[OKNancy]

23. You get used to it

If one has a passion for something, it's amazing what can be done.

[AndyA]

8. Glad to hear you're getting rain

I heard that even the Cactus (Cacti?) were suffering due to lack of water. That's pretty bad.

[NMDemDist2]

12. yup cuz we didn't have much rain over the summer either

missing two rainy seasons makes it tough!

[NMDemDist2]

14. self delete, double clutched it there......

they can handle missing one rainy season but two makes it tough

[babylonsister]

9. Yeah! Let's hear it for the cacti and the Arizonians!

I hope it continues!

[NMDemDist2]

13. most of today and tomorrow

it's supposed to be 80 again by Friday

[Cerridwen]

10. It's WONderful!

My car's finally getting a good rinse; I may not have to dust for a few hours; I can wear sweats without sweating; the air smells wonderful. Of course the dogs are none too happy, but they'll get over it.

:evilgrin:

[NMDemDist2]

11. rofl Arizona dogs and rain

they're pretty darn funny

MOM!!! what's that stuff?? it's falling from the SKY! OOOOOOO it makes my feet feel funny MOM!!!!

LET ME IN!

:rofl:

[Cerridwen]

15. LOL - wait, mom, wait - try the front door, maybe it's not so wet

out the front door?!

Mom, mom! Make it stop!

:rofl:

[marcapolo]

18. rain and dogs

We have a puppy who's over 4 months old but it's the first rain she's seen. She's just standing out there barking at it. Shame we won't have the wildflowers and carpet of green on the mountains we had last spring. By the way, I love your user name. My real name's Keridwen.

[NMDemDist2]

19. welcome to DU marcapolo!

:hi:

[NNadir]

17. I think I speak for the whole E&E forum in expressing our happiness for

our many Arizona friends.

[phantom power]

20. This may have saved us from a historically bad fire season.

It may still be bad, but we may have dodged a record-breaker.

[NMDemDist2]

21. I doubt it will help too much, we can only be grateful there is very

little weeds to add to the fuel

[phantom power]

22. I'm hoping it will at least postpone fire season...

until the normal time for fire season. We'll see...

[NNadir]

28. I wouldn't have thought you have much of a fire season.

Unless of course, you are speaking of the mountain areas.

Is it not true that the vegetation in the desert itself is too sparce to create much of a fire?

It's been some time since I've been to Arizona, but what I recall of the Phoenix area was that there wasn't that much to burn. Am I wrong on this?

[NMDemDist2]

30. you are correct but the rim country is full of pine forests already

weakened by drought induced bark beetles

[NNadir]

31. Bummer.

[dcfirefighter]

33. I had a conversation about this with a lovely lady on the way to PHX

Despite my job title, I know very little about western wildfires. I learned, at the Atomic Test Site in NV, no less, that a rainy spring can make the fire season worse - the plants grow like crazy, then dry out.

On a flight leg that ended in PHX, a woman sitting next to me on the plane explained that after 2 years of drought (she blamed all the coastal people moving into town and wanting their lawns and golf courses) people were worried about fires.

I found this interesting, because in my experience, no one is worried about fire until you can see it in your neighborhood.

[Pooka Fey]

24. Whooooooo-Hoooooooooo!!!!!!!

:woohoo::woohoo::woohoo::loveya:It's RAINING It's Pouring The Old Man is Snoring !!! :loveya::woohoo::woohoo::woohoo:

Well, it's not really pouring, but it's raining and I've never seen a more beautiful sight!!!!!!:woohoo:

[kestrel91316]

25. You weenies, lol! LA has gone more than twice that long on more

than one occasion in recent years...........

Our vegetation even seems to be able to cope with it. No dying cactuses. Just those sporadic conflagrations in the chapparal..............

[NMDemDist2]

26. yeah, but you get your water from us and Sacramento

if we don't get the water neither will you.....

[kestrel91316]

27. Actually, I think where I am we steal our water from the Owens Valley.

[NMDemDist2]

29. ROFL

well then you must be east of San Berdoo and yes it gets plenty dry there

[kestrel91316]

34. Nope. San Fernando Valley. We do get some water from the

Central Valley, also, but an awful lot comes from the Eastern Sierra. They pump the aqueduct water up over the mountains into the valley.

East of here they get theirs mostly from the Colorado River.

[Trillo]

32. Here are some more maps

The following map will change as time moves on, but it should be reflective of the storm today on the timestamp of my posting. The map also has a timestamp on it.
http://wxmaps.org.nyud.net:8090/pix/avnmr1.00hr.png
I find this particular map curious, I've watched storms from them for years intermittently, and this particular counterclockwise vorticity (red loop) appears larger than I remember typically seeing.

It's quite unusual for the "540" line (rough guide to rain versus snow) to dip down into Baja California, Mexico.
http://wxmaps.org.nyud.net:8090/pix/avnmr2.00hr.png

A whole series of maps can be viewed from:
http://wxmaps.org/pix/analyses.html

The key to the maps to aid understanding:
http://wxmaps.org/pix/fcstkey.html