Arizona Weather Force

Arizona Weather Force has issued a Special Weather Statement effective late Friday night and going through half of Saturday for thunderstorm dynamics in the following areas: Maricopa and Yavapai County, parts of the Mogollon Rim, and the Central to Northern Colorado River Valley zones, which will include Quartzsite and Kingman as well. An upper-level low that churning west of California […]

Arizona Weather Force has issued an update status of the coming system with a narrowed window from November 14th to 18th to November later 15th to 18th. Back on November 5th, the official long range weather advisory was issued here at Arizona Weather Force.  (See reference A below). A storm system will bring a pineapple express to California, with Arizona being […]

Arizona Weather Force has issued a Long-Range Weather Advisory effective for mid-November, with a window between November 14th and 18th respectively. A ridge south of Alaska will form with a ridge in Southern Canada.  This will block storms from moving up and over and into the Central/Eastern United States and allow a rouge low pressure system to form below it, […]

Arizona Weather Force has issued the final forecast for the 2023-2024 winter season for the state of Arizona, and it will be anything but a normal El Nino. El Nino is the warming of the Equatorial Pacific Ocean from South America to near Australia.  The last strong El Nino we had like this was the 1997-1998 season, however does El […]

Issued Zones:  High Terrain Locations Centering the Mogollon Rim, Grand Canyon, and Flagstaff forecast zones … Site:  Arizona Weather Force has issued a Thunderstorm Watch effective later this morning through this evening … Date:  10/8/23 at 7:10am PT Forecast: Moisture in the area will maximize today across the watch area.  Thunderstorms are expected to start forming later this morning, peaking this […]

Arizona Weather Force has issued a Wind Watch for most of Arizona, effective this weekend, weekend of September 30th. Not many details can be said about a wind event, but maps can be shown to say what type of event something will be.  The strongest winds will be across the Northern, Eastern, and Southern half of Arizona.  Wind gusts up […]

The 2022-2023 Strong La Nina brought above average rainfall to the Southwestern United States.  This was not typical of a La Nina but was fully predicted here at the weather force.  Now we have a Strong El Nino and what this one will do is on a lot of minds. A typical El Nino has warmer than normal temperatures along […]

Arizona Weather Force has issued a Thunderstorm Watch effective today, September 14th, 2023, within a small, but populated area of North-Central Arizona that includes Prescott, Sedona, and Flagstaff, with surrounding nearby zones included. The last of the impulse moving through that affected the state with damaging winds, flooding, large hail, and even tornadoes within the last couple of days down […]

Arizona Weather Force has issued a Special Weather Statement for Former Major Hurricane Jova, which has weakened to a Tropical Storm, but will bring mid and upper-level moisture to the Northern half of Arizona through the next few days, but the most will be expected on Tuesday, September 12th. The moisture has brought thunderstorms to the higher terrain, but the […]

Arizona Weather Force has issued an Enhanced Severe Thunderstorm Watch in what will be the strongest monsoon push of the now late season, effective for Pinal, Maricopa, Yavapai, and Mohave County today through the overnight and into Friday morning … An upper-level low off the California coast is bringing in tropical moisture in from Mexico, which is the monsoon flow.  […]