Arizona Weather Force

Arizona Weather Force has issued a Long Range Weather Advisory.  Tropical activity is on the rise in the Eastern Pacific with a number of tropical systems that will turn north with the Summer El Nino Pattern and impact the state of Arizona for the early week of August 20th, 2023. Monsoon activity is remaining in the north, east, and southeast […]

Arizona Weather Force has issued an Enhanced Severe Thunderstorm Watch effective today, until 2am overnight tonight.  The affected areas will be Pima, Pinal, Maricopa, Yavapai, Coconino, La Paz, and Mohave County. As stated back on July 13th (Reference A Below) we would see a high-risk event in the metro areas.  We have seen these in Tucson, with some Maricopa County […]

An inverted trough located over the Gulf of Mexico will migrate westward through the rest of this week, ending up in the Arizona area over the weekend.  An inverted trough means that a lot of lift will be associated with the coming event.  Storms forming across the high terrain would move down into the metro zones as a result. Back […]

Issued Zones:  Central to Northern half of Yavapai County … Western half of Coconino County … Mount Trumbull … Site:  Arizona Weather Force has issued a Thunderstorm Watch effective later this morning through this evening … Date:  7/24/23 at 9:40am PT Forecast: An area of vorticity moving through Maricopa county this morning will move north-northwest into the Prescott/Chino Valley watch zones […]

Arizona Weather Force has issued three alerts for parts of Arizona.  Those alerts are the Severe and Thunderstorm Watch, along with a weather advisory. The ridge of high pressure will position itself today for more widespread storm activity.  Storms will form along the Mogollon Rim, and across Cochise, Pima, and Graham County first through the afternoon. Storms within the Pima, […]

Arizona Weather Force has issued a Long-Range Weather Advisory as a ridge of high pressure after July 20th will move into place for a major upswing in the monsoon activity between then and the end of the month. Parts of the Mogollon Rim and Southeastern Arizona have been seeing storms this week as the monsoon starts up in those areas.  […]

Arizona Weather Force has issued the final update to the 2023 Arizona Monsoon Season.  This forecast goes against NOAA for the 3rd time in calling opposite of their thoughts. NOAA decided because El Nino is present that the Arizona Monsoon will be way below normal.  We are starting to see the effects of this monsoon now in Southeastern Arizona with […]

A ridge of high pressure will become stronger across Arizona after July 11th, which will bring temperatures up from where they are now, which should be the hottest period of this summer.  Temperatures of 115+ will be possible in the lower terrain zones with even hotter temperatures along the Colorado River Valley.  Anyone having activities at the river will have […]

Tropical Storm Adrian has formed in the Eastern Pacific and will become a category one system as early as a day or two as it moves deeper into the Pacific Basin. This is the first system of the 2023 Hurricane Season for the Eastern Pacific Basin.  As previously stated here at Arizona Weather Force, the season down there will be […]

The heat is building in the Southwest Desert, normal for this time of year.  Arizona’s low terrain will be pushing those 110F and higher temperatures again as we move through the first part of July with the first monsoon heat burst projected by July 9th, after the first ridge on July 1st develops. A monsoonal heat burst happens when the […]