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Re: 2012 Monsoon Season has it really began in Arizona??
« Reply #25 on: July 14, 2012, 08:25:15 PM »
Wow a whopping 0.02 inches  :mad: of rain bringing the "Nonsoon Season" :mad: :evil: total to 0.24 inches from 4 unimpressive Thunderstorms and now 2012 is the driest on record through July 14th with only 1.58 inches for the year :( Hopefully things will change soon......

I know parts of Arizona including the East Valley of Phoenix today have been getting rain this has been a very disappointing start to the season in North Phoenix!!

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Re: 2012 Monsoon Season has it really began in Arizona??
« Reply #26 on: July 14, 2012, 11:35:16 PM »
0.02" was all I got as well from the 'storm' today, and a whopping 0.04" from the other day. Nonsense...
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Re: 2012 Monsoon Season has it really began in Arizona??
« Reply #27 on: July 15, 2012, 03:55:20 PM »
Quite a couple of storms passed through yesterday for a total of 1.69".  After 69 days without measurable rain, I'm now at 5 days in a row WITH measurable rain!

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Re: 2012 Monsoon Season has it really began in Arizona??
« Reply #28 on: July 15, 2012, 05:22:00 PM »
Very impressive storms indeed yesterday. Below are the rainfall totals from the four stations I operate, with the big winner being the station located at Southern and Dobson in Mesa.

Gold Canyon: 0.32in.
Northeast Mesa: 0.70in.
Northwest Mesa: 0.68in.
Southwest Mesa: 0.87in.

In case you want to see some video from yesterday I made two which can be viewed at the links below:
Time Lapse Of The Storm Moving Into the Apache Junction/Gold Canyon area
Flooding In The Northern Portion Of Apache Junction

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Re: 2012 Monsoon Season has it really began in Arizona??
« Reply #29 on: July 15, 2012, 07:33:21 PM »
Very impressive storms indeed yesterday. Below are the rainfall totals from the four stations I operate, with the big winner being the station located at Southern and Dobson in Mesa.

Gold Canyon: 0.32in.
Northeast Mesa: 0.70in.
Northwest Mesa: 0.68in.
Southwest Mesa: 0.87in.
Nice!  I've had similar totals from stations all around me :evil: the past 2 days but have only managed 0.15in in my gauges, with today's rain being the heaviest (.08in so far).
In case you want to see some video from yesterday I made two which can be viewed at the links below:
Time Lapse Of The Storm Moving Into the Apache Junction/Gold Canyon area
Flooding In The Northern Portion Of Apache Junction
Cool video and time lapse!  The video looked like it was ready to send into a TV station.  I kept waiting for you to break-in with an on the scene report!  :-)
« Last Edit: July 15, 2012, 08:25:18 PM by neondesert »
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Re: 2012 Monsoon Season has it really began in Arizona??
« Reply #30 on: July 15, 2012, 07:50:18 PM »
I'm with most everyone else... .02" out of Saturday's storm. Total of .29" for the season in Northwest Peoria.

I had gone to Pinetop over the weekend in hopes of seeing some weather... Not only didn't it rain, it was perfectly sunny ! What's a guy gotta do to see some rain ?!?!  :-x
« Last Edit: July 15, 2012, 07:52:06 PM by Lefty »
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Re: 2012 Monsoon Season has it really began in Arizona??
« Reply #31 on: July 15, 2012, 08:14:39 PM »
Cool video and time lapse!  The video looked like it was ready to send into a TV station.  I kept waiting for you to break-in with an on the scene report!  :-)

Thanks, funny you should mention that, over the past couple weeks have actually been with Channel 12 here in the valley when larger storms come through doing some reports for them on air.

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Re: 2012 Monsoon Season has it really began in Arizona??
« Reply #32 on: July 15, 2012, 09:38:03 PM »

Nice!  I've had similar totals from stations all around me :evil: the past 2 days but have only managed 0.15in in my gauges, with today's rain being the heaviest (.08in so far).

Looks like Centennial Hills got hammered:
Centennial Hills near Buffalo and Grand Teton Drives was one of the worst hit areas. At one point, there were reports of two to three feet of water near the intersection. The area around U.S. 95 and Buffalo Drive, as well as Buffalo Drive and Cheyenne Avenue, also experienced flooding.

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Re: 2012 Monsoon Season has it really began in Arizona??
« Reply #33 on: July 15, 2012, 11:22:05 PM »

Nice!  I've had similar totals from stations all around me :evil: the past 2 days but have only managed 0.15in in my gauges, with today's rain being the heaviest (.08in so far).

Looks like Centennial Hills got hammered:
Centennial Hills near Buffalo and Grand Teton Drives was one of the worst hit areas. At one point, there were reports of two to three feet of water near the intersection. The area around U.S. 95 and Buffalo Drive, as well as Buffalo Drive and Cheyenne Avenue, also experienced flooding.

Yes they did!  I watched a cell form over the far NW yesterday evening and remain stationary for about 2 hours.  Put on a good light show for us and one heck of downpour for them.  ;)

Here are some storm reports from yesterday and this afternoon:

0930 PM     FLASH FLOOD      1 NNE CENTENNIAL HILLS  36.28N 115.26W
 07/14/2012                   CLARK              NV   FIRE DEPT/RESCUE
 
             SWIFT WATER RESCUE WAS REPORTED ON WEST DEER SPRINGS WAY
             BETWEEN 7601 AND 7809.
 
 1000 PM     FLASH FLOOD      3 NNE SUMMERLIN         36.24N 115.28W
 07/14/2012                   CLARK              NV   TRAINED SPOTTER
 
             A SPOTTER REPORTED FLASH FLOODING ON EL CAPITAN BETWEEN
             GILMORE AND ALEXANDER THAT COVERED BOTH LANES. THE WATER
             ON GILMORE IS APPROXIMATE 4 INCHES DEEP AND THE WATER ON
             ALEXANDER IS APPROXIMATELY 8 INCHES DEEP. THREE AND HALF
             TO 5 INCH DIAMETER STONES COVERED THE ROAD.
 
 1000 PM     FLASH FLOOD      4 W NORTH LAS VEGAS     36.27N 115.21W
 07/14/2012                   CLARK              NV   NWS EMPLOYEE   
 
             3 TO 4 INCHES OF WATER COLLECTED ON DECATUR BOULEVARD
             NORTH ALONG WITH A SMALL AMOUNT OF MUD AND SMALL ROCKS
             JUST SOUTH OF THE INTERSECTION WITH 215 NORTH. AROUND 4
             INCHES OF WATER ON DECATUR BOULEVARD NEAR THE INTESECTION
             OF WASHINGTON ROAD WAS STILL ON THE GROUND NEARLY 10
             HOURS AFTER THE RAIN ENDED.
 
 1005 PM     FLASH FLOOD      2 NNE CENTENNIAL HILLS  36.31N 115.26W
 07/14/2012                   CLARK              NV   BROADCAST MEDIA
 
             3 FEET OF WATER ON BUFFALO DRIVE NEAR GRAND TEATON.

1100 PM     HEAVY RAIN       6 NW NORTH LAS VEGAS    36.33N 115.21W
 07/14/2012  M2.68 INCH       CLARK              NV   MESONET         
 
             AN AUTOMATED RAIN GAUGE FROM THE CLARK COUNTY REGIONAL
             FLOOD CONTROL DISTRICT NEAR THE NORTH END OF DECATUR
             BOULEVARD MEASURED A STORM TOTAL OF 2.68 INCHES OF
             RAIN...MOST OF WHICH FELL IN LESS THAN 2 HOURS.

0232 PM     HAIL             3 ESE GREEN VALLEY      36.05N 115.03W
 07/15/2012  E0.25 INCH       CLARK              NV   TRAINED SPOTTER
 
 0323 PM     HEAVY RAIN       2 ENE GREEN VALLEY      36.06N 115.05W
 07/15/2012  E0.40 INCH       CLARK              NV   BROADCAST MEDIA
 
             LAS VEGAS AREA BROADCAST MEDIA REPORTED A FEW INCHES OF
             WATER COLLECTED AT THE INTERSECTION OF SUNSET AND
             STEPHANIE IN HENDERSON.

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Re: 2012 Monsoon Season has it really began in Arizona??
« Reply #35 on: July 16, 2012, 06:53:22 PM »
Yes they did!  I watched a cell form over the far NW yesterday evening and remain stationary for about 2 hours.  Put on a good light show for us and one heck of downpour for them.  ;)


Good thing that they have all that flood control in that area... #-o

Seems like that part of town always goes underwater.
« Last Edit: July 22, 2012, 05:35:50 PM by Cienega32 »

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Re: 2012 Monsoon Season has it really began in Arizona??
« Reply #36 on: July 22, 2012, 08:10:07 AM »
Well it looks like North Phoenix got their monsoon yesterday. North Phx got hit by an interesting storm: weather was out of the southeast all day except for the one storm that soaked North Phoenix. It made it as far as Cave Creek (Northeast Phx area) and then took an abrupt left and moved west. With that kind of movement, I thought for sure it was going to spawn some more excitement, but nothing.

For us in the northwest part of the Valley, we got LOTS of dust, constant winds 20 - 30 MPH, and only .14" of rain, most of which was sideways. Cool light show, tho !
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Re: 2012 Monsoon Season has it really began in Arizona??
« Reply #37 on: July 22, 2012, 03:57:34 PM »
Yep - yet another worthless event, Steve. Over here (~A51 & Bell Rd) I got a whopping 0.01" late afternoon (another 0.01" very early morning), and a 30mph gust at 1730. Minor blowing dust, which is unusual for this area.

Whoopie...   :roll:
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Re: 2012 Monsoon Season has it really began in Arizona??
« Reply #38 on: July 23, 2012, 02:28:53 AM »
The Hype - "MONSOON 2012" - Channel 12 I think needs a geography lesson they keep changing the valley's boundaries just so they hype all the time and make it seem like  all the Valley gets hit with storms everyday.

The truth - "NONSOON 2012" another worthless non eventful day in North Phoenix, I think 10 drops  :roll: fell yesterday wasn't much better 0.11 inches from a storm that passed to North via Cave Creek to New River then tried to back in as it was dissipating I think barely made pass the 101 and thanks to the dust everything is coated in mud from another grand old ninety eight pound weakling  #-o thunderstorm

NONSOON totals so far 0.35 inches for July :-( and Whooping 1.69 inches :-( for the year as the driest year on record todate continues!!!
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Re: 2012 Monsoon Season has it really began in Arizona??
« Reply #39 on: July 23, 2012, 08:28:35 AM »
Sorry you aren't getting any rain, but thanks for sending the moisture this way.  After only .22 inches in June, we have gotten 1.28 inches so far in July.
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Re: 2012 Monsoon Season has it really began in Arizona??
« Reply #40 on: July 23, 2012, 11:10:21 AM »
NONSOON totals so far 0.35 inches for July :-( and Whooping 1.69 inches :-( for the year as the driest year on record todate continues!!!

More than I've gotten (even though we're only a few miles apart). 0.91" for the year, 0.18" for July, and both Feb and Jun with 0.00".

Think I'll move to Hilo - donations accepted...   :roll:
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Re: 2012 Monsoon Season has it really began in Arizona??
« Reply #41 on: July 23, 2012, 04:28:09 PM »
Today looks interesting... NWS shows a converging Low with our current High that will squeeze the moisture into the middle part of the state. Dew points are in the mid-upper 60s and have stayed there all day. Also, a look at radar shows the storms forming up in the mountains are largely stationary. I bet some areas get some wicked flooding. I also bet there will be no love for us in the Valley...  :sad:
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Re: 2012 Monsoon Season has it really began in Arizona??
« Reply #42 on: July 23, 2012, 07:56:15 PM »
This just went up at 1647, but it expires at 1700...

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URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHOENIX AZ
447 PM MST MON JUL 23 2012

...DUST STORM WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 5 PM MST THIS AFTERNOON...

THE DUST STORM WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 5 PM MST THIS AFTERNOON.

STRONG GUSTY WINDS HAVE DIMINISHED AND VISIBILITIES HAVE IMPROVED TO
GREATER THAN TWO MILES IN MANY AREAS ACROSS THE PHOENIX METROPOLITAN
AREA. CONDITIONS WILL REMAIN HAZY AND DUST WILL REMAIN LOFTED OVER
THE AREA FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS.

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHOENIX IS ON THE INTERNET AT

WEATHER.GOV/PHOENIX

Closest t'storms are on the 50mi ring, but all 5 went inactive a few minutes ago.

Yet another fizzle...
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Re: 2012 Monsoon Season has it really began in Arizona??
« Reply #43 on: July 29, 2012, 12:49:22 PM »
Active day yesterday unfolded nicely and looks like another active day will possibly be on tap today.  Below are my rainfall totals for the storm and for the season thus far:

Station            Storm         Season (from June 15th)
Gold Canyon     0.17in         1.43in
NE Mesa          0.23in         1.45in
NW Mesa         0.32in         1.04in
SW Mesa         0.13in         1.53in

Also, below are two time lapse I created yesterday of a thunderstorm moving into east Mesa and another moving into Fountain Hills.
http://weatherbus.com/weather_discussion/nfblog/?p=384

Overall not bad for those four stations, hope you guys got some rainfall from yesterday!

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Re: 2012 Monsoon Season has it really began in Arizona??
« Reply #44 on: July 29, 2012, 01:55:39 PM »
Overall not bad for those four stations, hope you guys got some rainfall from yesterday!

Boo-Hiss! Got a giant 0.07" last night. Then, right in the middle of that APS decided to lose power for over an hour. Fortunately, the batteries in the console kept up with the "storm" and WD nicely recovered that and all the other data. Nifty!
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Re: 2012 Monsoon Season has it really began in Arizona??
« Reply #45 on: July 29, 2012, 06:52:14 PM »
Overall not bad for those four stations, hope you guys got some rainfall from yesterday!

Got a big ole goose egg on the NW side of town. Didn't even get cloudy, though the dust was a nice weather feature (NOT !).

I'm at .43" for the non-soon and .97" for the year. Pretty pathetic...
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Re: 2012 Monsoon Season has it really began in Arizona??
« Reply #46 on: July 30, 2012, 11:59:57 AM »
I'm now at 4.73" for the month of July up here in Sedona.  That's pretty much a standard total for the whole monsoon season!  I'll take it!

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Re: 2012 Monsoon Season has it really began in Arizona??
« Reply #47 on: July 30, 2012, 01:00:39 PM »
Added .28" from a storm that came through yesterday evening. Had a 5 minute burst at a rate of 2"\hr, which was nice to finally see. Now at .71" (Nonsoon) and 1.25" (Year).

I think I'm in competition with John and Jeanette to see who gets the least rain this summer. Go ahead, try to beat me...  :twisted:
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Re: 2012 Monsoon Season has it really began in Arizona??
« Reply #48 on: July 30, 2012, 01:30:52 PM »
Steve,

No chance of beating you from my side. Got a whole 0.10" last night! Well, at least I made it to tenths instead of just hundredths...

Now looking at 0.35" month and 1.08" year.
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Re: 2012 Monsoon Season has it really began in Arizona??
« Reply #49 on: July 30, 2012, 02:08:25 PM »
Steve,

No chance of beating you from my side. Got a whole 0.10" last night! Well, at least I made it to tenths instead of just hundredths...

Now looking at 0.35" month and 1.08" year.

Well John, technically I'm not in Arizona, but your stats are beating me...at the moment.  Only 0.26" for July/Monsoon Season and 0.75" for the year.
We are now under a Flash Flood Watch with plenty of moisture streaming NW towards us.  POP's have been increased to 50% through
tonight so fingers crossed.
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