Arizona Weather Force

It is only Mid-June and we have used up three tropical storm names down in the Eastern Pacific Hurricane Basin, which is quite rare.  This is telling of the active basin in my Summer 2021 forecast.  So what does that mean for the monsoon and overall outlook of the atmosphere from here on out?  … and don’t forget, the Summer […]

Arizona Weather Force has issued a Dry Lightning Fire Weather Warning for the Upper Terrain of Arizona, effective now through some of tonight as a thunderstorm complex moves east to west in the first ‘hint’ of the monsoon flow on the first day of the official start, then for the rest of the Upper Terrain areas from Prescott, the Grand […]

Arizona Weather Force has issued a Special Weather Statement out ahead of the week of June 14th as a deadly heatwave is showing up in the latest numbers being crunched so plan where to get cool soon, so read on for details … The slightly ‘cooler’ weather you are experiencing now is due to a very large trough of low […]

Last summer we had a building La Nina, which meant fewer hurricanes south of here for a terribly dry monsoon season and extremely hot temperatures.  This summer however the La Nina has officially faded to neutral, which means the Eastern Pacific Hurricane Season will go down as one of the most active seasons on record, bringing up multiple shots of […]

Pending the weather conditions in your area, flying at over 18,500 mph, orbiting the planet in 90 minutes, having human life onboard doing experiments in zero gravity, is the International Space Station.   First launched in 2001, piece by piece over the years put the outpost together to form the station.  And this will be flying across the sky tonight so […]

In just over 300 kilometers up, SpaceX Starlink 27 constellation launched two weeks ago is the newest one to fly overhead and a sighting in Wisconsin and Ohio last night of the same row says one or both of these passes will be visible with one happening tonight (Sunday) and the other early Monday morning so read on for details […]

On the night of May 25-27, observers in Oceania, Hawaii, eastern Asia, and Antarctica will see a lunar eclipse that coincides with the moon’s closest approach to Earth — making it a “supermoon” eclipse that will turn the moon reddish — also known as a “blood moon.” (The dates of this eclipse span two days because the area it will […]

Discussion: Short and sweet, the synopsis has a weak disturbance moving across the region today into later this evening. Upper dynamics and instability suggests the target zones for concentrated lightning strikes will be the northwest half of the state, surrounding Parker, Lake Havasu, Bullhead City, Kingman, The Grand Canyon, Prescott, and Flagstaff … with isolated weaker risks as far as […]

A cold weather system out of California and Nevada will affect the state of Arizona today into some of Wednesday.  Most of the activity for the metros of Phoenix and Tucson looks to be today (Tuesday) and there will be a chance of thunderstorms with any stronger cells, especially the West/Northwest half of the state near Bullhead City.  Read on […]

A cold weather system out of California and Nevada will affect the state of Arizona through Saturday.  Most of the activity for the metros looks to be around Friday and there will be a chance of thunderstorms with any stronger cells.  Read on to view the zoomed-in model images for rain and snow forecasts for this event. The AZWF model image suite […]