The Weather is Crazy

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Mon Jun 27, 2016 2:08 pm

I'm in Ketchikan right now. They get approx 13 feet of rain per year, but none today.

Longhorned · Post by **Longhorned** » Mon Jun 27, 2016 8:07 pm

scumdevils86 wrote:We just got hammered over the last 45 mins or so here at Prince and Campbell. If I had to guess we got over an inch of rain and up to 70 mph gusts of wind. Neighbors awning is wrecked and part of the property's fence was blown over. Water started flooding in my back door. Definitely a top 5 storm that I've seen in my 30 years of monsoons.

That's a real flood.

scumdevils86 · Post by **scumdevils86** » Mon Jun 27, 2016 8:51 pm

Here it is shit.

Jefe · Post by **Jefe** » Tue Jun 28, 2016 4:35 pm

That microburst/mini-hurricane Sunday night was one of the craziest I have ever been in. I had just left the house when it hit and was heading south down Campbell. It felt like 60+ mph winds but didnt move my vehicle. All of the traffic lights were out, huge trees down in the road, and flashes from the power lines. I floored it and got through Roger as it looked like power poles were going to topple. Got my wingstop and headed back north and it was even worse. Over a foot of water in the middle turn lane on Campbell which I have never seen. I had to drive head on into traffic a couple times to avoid branches and trash cans.

RainLog said we got about 1.5" that day. In less than 25 minutes the wash was bank to bank. Got up the next morning to out 35' tree on the ground. Barely missed the house.

Timelapse

The fireworks tent at Ft Lowell:

You can still see the destruction on Campbell and River today. Winterhaven got hit hard as well

84Cat · Post by **84Cat** » Tue Jun 28, 2016 4:39 pm

Those trees in Winterhaven are nuts. Our friends that lives there lost a tree that fell into her pool. Our rain gauge showed exactly 1.5 inches.

scumdevils86 · Post by **scumdevils86** » Tue Jun 28, 2016 5:23 pm

Yeah I saw a rain gauge right by my house on Prince and Campbell and it said 1.5 inches

wyo-cat · Post by **wyo-cat** » Tue Jun 28, 2016 7:06 pm

We had 1.6" at FM admin and .9 at PAS. Total micro burst.

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Tue Jun 28, 2016 9:29 pm

pokinmik · Post by **pokinmik** » Wed Jun 29, 2016 4:33 am

Jefe wrote:Got my wingstop and headed back north and it was even worse.

Funny to imagine you flooring it thru torrential rain and dodging downed trees and powerlines to pick up wings haha. But glad you made it home safely.

wyo-cat · Post by **wyo-cat** » Fri Jul 01, 2016 10:53 am

It's raining like a mother scratcher on campus now.

scumdevils86 · Post by **scumdevils86** » Fri Jul 01, 2016 11:08 am

Yeah I'm right off campus and it is absolutely dumping. Hope the leaky roof is holding up at my other house.

Post by **UAdevil** » Fri Jul 01, 2016 11:22 am

We're getting absolutely slammed at Grant/Craycroft

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Fri Jul 01, 2016 11:28 am

scumdevils86 · Post by **scumdevils86** » Fri Jul 01, 2016 11:29 am

so many streets in town become 6-18 inches deep in water after less than 15 minutes of rain. I wonder why they never built decent drainage into the vast majority of tucson.

Jefe · Post by **Jefe** » Fri Jul 01, 2016 12:02 pm

McKale webcam

Stone and Drachman

Jefe · Post by **Jefe** » Fri Jul 01, 2016 12:13 pm

2nd ST

Downtown

Merkin · Post by **Merkin** » Fri Jul 01, 2016 12:36 pm

Olsondogg · Post by **Olsondogg** » Fri Jul 01, 2016 1:55 pm

scumdevils86 wrote:so many streets in town become 6-18 inches deep in water after less than 15 minutes of rain. I wonder why they never built decent drainage into the vast majority of tucson.

Been years since I lived there, but remember hearing the streets are supposed to flood in certain areas, that was part of the plan...

84Cat · Post by **84Cat** » Fri Jul 01, 2016 3:40 pm

ASUHATER! · Post by **ASUHATER!** » Fri Jul 01, 2016 7:39 pm

Merkin wrote:

I drove through that area just an hour ago...dry as a bone now.

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Fri Jul 01, 2016 8:26 pm

Merkin · Post by **Merkin** » Sun Jul 03, 2016 8:50 am

http://tucson.craigslist.org/cto/5664832577.html" target="_blank

UAEebs86 · Post by **UAEebs86** » Sun Jul 03, 2016 9:17 am

Merkin wrote:http://tucson.craigslist.org/cto/5664832577.html

wyo-cat · Post by **wyo-cat** » Sun Jul 03, 2016 10:19 am

Classic. Only issue is the map is wrong. Sixth Ave has a grade crossing.

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Mon Jul 04, 2016 1:37 pm

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Tue Jul 05, 2016 11:24 am

While I was in Ketchikan the guide commented that the weather was unusually nice that day. It was partly cloudy and no rain. They average 13' of rain a year. That's right, 13 feet. It rains 280 days a year there. It rains so much that the high school baseball team plays on gravel. If they try grass it gets way to muddy.

Merkin · Post by **Merkin** » Mon Jul 11, 2016 3:52 pm

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Wed Jul 13, 2016 6:36 pm

Crazy downpours at my house lead to an awesome full rainbow over Chicago.

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Wed Jul 13, 2016 6:59 pm

Longhorned · Post by **Longhorned** » Mon Jul 18, 2016 8:12 am

Completely dark like night time in central Illinois. I've never seen anything like it at 10:12 AM.

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Mon Jul 18, 2016 8:42 am

Longhorned wrote:Completely dark like night time in central Illinois. I've never seen anything like it at 10:12 AM.

Same system that dropped a bunch of tornadoes up here overnight. Stay safe LH.

Merkin · Post by **Merkin** » Mon Jul 18, 2016 9:18 am

Get ready you midwesterners. When the corn sweats you know you will be getting some pretty severe swamp ass.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/17/weather/e ... ntent=link" target="_blank

High temperatures, 'corn sweat' form dangerous heat dome over U.S.

Cities such as Des Moines, Kansas City, St. Louis, Minneapolis, Oklahoma City and Chicago are expected to see temperatures nearing or exceeding 100 degrees -- and when humidity is added in, the heat index may rise to a dangerous 120 degrees.

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Mon Jul 18, 2016 9:22 am

scumdevils86 · Post by **scumdevils86** » Mon Jul 18, 2016 4:53 pm

working in Catalina and we've been absolutely rocked by a monster storm since about 415. at least a dozen lightning strikes within half a mile, a few within a hundred yards or so. and based on the volume of rain it is probably about 2 inches of precipitation too.

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Mon Jul 18, 2016 8:38 pm

ASUHATER! · Post by **ASUHATER!** » Mon Jul 18, 2016 8:42 pm

Those things are scary. The one that hit where I live a couple weeks ago was insane. Sunny outside and I couldn't really tell a storm was coming....and 5 minutes later it was dark outside with tropical rain downpours and 60 MPh winds.

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Wed Jul 20, 2016 2:45 pm

Did it hail in Tucson today?

Merkin · Post by **Merkin** » Fri Jul 22, 2016 11:33 am

scumdevils86 · Post by **scumdevils86** » Fri Jul 22, 2016 11:38 am

watch out longhorned!

scumdevils86 · Post by **scumdevils86** » Fri Jul 22, 2016 11:40 am

Merkin · Post by **Merkin** » Fri Jul 22, 2016 1:59 pm

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Sun Jul 24, 2016 6:30 pm

Merkin · Post by **Merkin** » Mon Jul 25, 2016 8:22 am

catgrad97 · Post by **catgrad97** » Mon Jul 25, 2016 10:56 am

It is built on a swamp.

ASUHATER! · Post by **ASUHATER!** » Mon Jul 25, 2016 11:10 am

catgrad97 wrote:It is built on a swamp.

after living in arizona for 30 years...the most uncomfortable I've ever been was the couple of times in the 90s I spent some time visiting family in the northern VA/DC area. walking around the national mall in mid july was brutal.

scumdevils86 · Post by **scumdevils86** » Tue Jul 26, 2016 8:36 pm

Most of Tucson has already been or is about to be pummeled by a very large storm.

UAEebs86 · Post by **UAEebs86** » Fri Jul 29, 2016 5:18 pm

Absolute toad strangler thunderstorm with hail here in Vail.

ASUHATER! · Post by **ASUHATER!** » Fri Jul 29, 2016 6:01 pm

This storm is stretching from green valley to almost the white Mountains. 60 MPh winds and half inch plus hail for most of tucson about to start

FreeSpiritCat · Post by **FreeSpiritCat** » Tue Aug 02, 2016 5:58 pm

So I'm getting off work here in Phoenix and the monsoon rain was so intense that I couldn't see the building across the street. The trees were bending horizontal and I saw a tree break and land on a car. And I thought I was going to be able to show off with my umbrella handy. Even thought it was still raining I decided to cross the street, The street was a river and the water reached up to almost my knee just before the opposite side curb. I did make it home (I liver very close by) and my garden patio was flooded to ankle deep. Thank goodness my front door is elevated a little higher than my patio.

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Tue Aug 02, 2016 6:00 pm

Catintheheat wrote:So I'm getting off work here in Phoenix and the monsoon rain was so intense that I couldn't see the building across the street. The trees were bending horizontal and I saw a tree break and land on a car. And I thought I was going to be able to show off with my umbrella handy. Even thought it was still raining I decided to cross the street, The street was a river and the water reached up to almost my knee just before the opposite side curb. I did make it home (I liver very close by) and my garden patio was flooded to ankle deep. Thank goodness my front door is elevated a little higher than my patio.

Just sprinkles here in the n valley so far.

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