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 […]

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 Tornado Watch effective for the following areas: All of Maricopa, Pinal, and Pima County, which includes Phoenix, San Tan, Tucson and all in between, now until Wednesday morning. Former Major Hurricane Jova is continuing to deliver moisture out of the Pacific Ocean.  This moisture is now being met with a strong upper-level jet stream.  […]

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.  […]

Tropical Depression Harold is currently located in Southwest New Mexico, after having made landfall in South Texas earlier this week.  As per the article image, this system will move directly into Central Arizona through the period and then finally north into Utah tomorrow morning. Increasing chances of showers and thunderstorms will be the result, especially the higher terrain locations of […]

Arizona Weather Force has upgraded part of the Severe Weather Statement issued yesterday (Reference A Below) to an official Enhanced Severe Thunderstorm Watch for Maricopa, Pinal, Pima, and Santa Cruz County, effective this afternoon, evening, and expiring at midnight tonight. A southeast to northwest flow evident from the storm activity yesterday evening will remain present as Hurricane Hilary’s outflow influence […]