Wow. It's cold, but the sun is shining!

[debilorrah]

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You know how a mountain looks with snow covered caps and the trees dotting out amongst it? That is the mountains behind our house. From the first snow until about May they stay like that. So gorgeous!

 

[seminolewind]

Rain? Arizona? Do those two words used in the same sentence?
Mahonri, the back porch? Be really nice and move them into your bedroom closet.

 

[LizFM]

Move over by Sky Harbor, Mahonri, and you won't have to worry about real rain more than once or twice a year. If that. Co-workers come in talking about rain and storms. I hear reports of heavy rains all around the valley. Our sidewalk doesn't even get wet!

 

[Mahonri]

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O yeah!, makes me sad I have to use the back porch... that's gonna be a mess I'm not looking forward to cleaning it up, O well, the price you pay to live in AZ when it actually rains. I don't think we've had a series of storms come at us like this since February of '93. It's been a while, and I didn't have chickens back then.

Three of my kids are headed to the mountains for a snow outing this weekend. There should be plenty of fresh snow up by Strawberry by then.

 

[Mahonri]

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I'm just about 3 miles straight north and half a block east of the mid point of Sky Harbor. (just Google Earthed it)

Where are you located?

 

[LizFM]

In Tempe west of ASU. Seriously, it rarely rains here enough to get the sidewalks completely wet. And real, drenching rain (not a few spatters and everything is dry 1/2 hour later)...maybe twice a year-and that's a generous guess lately. One of my co-workers who lives in Chandler was talking about how much rain they got last week (was it Thurs?). I said I saw the lightening over their area, but we didn't get a drop. She was really shocked.

The first monsoon (back when we had them LOL) after we moved here in 03...I remember a steady drenching rain 24 hours a day for what seemed like 3 or 4 days. Nothing like that for years here.

Of course, I grew up in Kansas...my definition of a "real storm" might be a bit different than most folks. You wanna see an Arizona native freak out, say a thundercloud looks like it has a tornado in it.

 

[Mahonri]

Get ready, Tempe's gonna get wet! You are 3 miles East and about a half mile south of Sky Harbor.... About the same distance away as me, only in a different direction. (you must be close to Tempe Feed and Tack)

As much as we need the moisture, I hope the weather man is wrong, but radar shows the rain hitting the west part of the metro area at present, we should have rain by morning.

 

[English Chick]

You all have my sympathies!..... now get battening down those hatches!... stat..........

 

[BarkerChickens]

CalFire and USGS put out a report that another large is projected to be coming in towards the end of the NEXT week (so a week-and-a-half to two weeks from now) and that it will be a warmer storm. SO, all the snow we'll get in the mtns. from this weeks storms will melt and that runoff combined with that warmer storms precipitation is gonna be a MESS!! The burn areas here in California are gonna be massive landslides.

The next couple weeks are gonna be wet!! I hope it brings us out of this drought!

 

[theOEGBman]

We already got a little rain today, but we have a whole 5-day forecast of it! We're supposed to get some good storms too. Not the best for driving to school!