Arizona Weather Force

Arizona Weather Force has extended the weekend Severe Thunderstorm Watch through Monday night, which includes the metro areas of Phoenix and Tucson so read on for details … A Severe Thunderstorm Watch was issued yesterday morning here at Arizona Weather Force.  This produced widespread thunderstorms from Tucson to Mesa, with damage reported in some spots.  This alert was the first […]

Arizona Weather Force has issued a Severe Thunderstorm Watch effective now through Sunday for numerous thunderstorms, flooding in spots, damaging winds, and hail.  This forecast directly comes after the prediction I made on August 19th of a surge of monsoonal moisture by end month into September so read on for details on that call and the alert issued … Back […]

Arizona Weather Force has issued a Thunderstorm Watch for all of Arizona, minus along the immediate CA/AZ border.  Clear skies with building instability and a favorable ridge placement for upper divergence will pop off numerous thunderstorms across Arizona today so read on for details … The ridge of high pressure will buckle a bit in Eastern Arizona and this will […]

Risk of Thunderstorms Elevating For Phoenix and Tucson forecast areas this evening/tonight … Weather Advisory in effect … Outflow (blue) is being seen coming from the complex nearing Globe. These severe storms will continue moving toward the metros and their outflow will eventually pop thunderstorms in those forecast areas … Just like before, some of you will see it, some […]

A late start but as a cooler than normal Southern California has turned around so will the monsoon in Arizona and evidence is finally there to warn of a strong upswing in the state-wide monsoon levels as we close the month off and go into September so read on for details. The Arizona Monsoon usually peaks around this time.  However, […]

The easterly wave brought flooding to the Tucson metro areas yesterday (Thursday) with storms today as well, and a weakening trend over the weekend, before a stronger monsoon flow is expected as we hit August.  Read on for details … On July 11th I stated that the monsoon would ramp up this month with the arrival of the easterly wave […]

Use this map to get to at least a Bortle 4 sky to see the comet tonight. It is tough to see from the city. Bortle is basically a measurement of light pollution. Link – https://www.lightpollutionmap.info/#zoom=6.34&lat=4075356&lon=-12479692&layers=B0FFFFFTFFFFFFFFF   At 8:30pm you will start to see the stars. At 9pm you will see the comet more and the best window is around […]

The Arizona Monsoon is about to show itself the real deal as I expected in the previous post from July 11th, which will directly affect the metro areas as well.  Read on for details … We are seeing thunderstorms in Southeast Arizona and along the Mogollon Rim as of late, and this is all very common during the monsoon.  However, […]

Tropical Storm Cristina is responsible for shoving moisture in the mid-levels northeast into Western Mexico.  In return, the developing thunderstorms there continue to push moisture northwest and eventually into Arizona, which will be caught up by the developing four corners ridge as this month moves along.  The heat-blast happening this weekend into Monday is the first sign of offshore flow […]

The first naked eye comet to be seen in darker skies of this magnitude since Comet Hale-Bopp in 1997 is an easy target for anyone up at 4:45am local time and looking northeast towards the sunrise through this week and a treat in binoculars.  Read more for details … A comet visiting from the most distant parts of our solar […]