Going to be an interesting couple of days of weather

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Hurricane Hilary is coming to the West Coast. They are forecasting most of a year's rain will fall on Vegas in two days. Of course, that's only 2-3 inches, but even so, it's a lot in one lump for us. The hummingbirds know it's coming. They almost drained my feeders yesterday and are fighting like crazy over places at the feeders. Could be the southward migration has started and we have a lot of transients conflicting with the locals.

Yesterday we had a big monsoon event roll through. As a result the local weather radar went down about 2000 last night, and we are short multiple OTA TV stations that have their towers up on the local mountains. I assume lightning has taken out the transmitters directly or their power supplies. Sprinklers are off, now we just have to adjust to the possibility of not seeing the Sun for three days. That'll create some disquiet if it happens. We like our blue skies here.:D
 
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Good luck and stay safe, Steve.

"Stuff" happening everywhere. Up here in BC, we have so many (381) wildfires that the premier has declared a Provincial state of emergency. In Kelowna in the BC interior, the fire chief said they had "100 years of firefighting in one night." The fire jumped the lake and one woman escaped in a kayak.

They had to evacuate the entire city of Yellowknife Ipop. 20,000) in the Northwest Territories.

Nothing scarily close to me but it's hazy today and they're predicting heavy smoke tomorrow. A good day to stay in and make apple sauce, I think.
 
Bad Weather Headed Towards the Southwest

LVSteve is right on target!

The news is reporting that the southwest has not had this type of weather since 1939. We lived in Phoenix for five years and then Austin for twenty years. The idiots seem to come out of the woodwork when these weather events happen. If the rain and wind are not a real problem the flooding may be the death trap especially in low areas. We always saw idiots driving through high water areas. I think that the safe depth is a foot. More water? Your car will float and away you go. No control whatsoever. Austin Travis EMS and AFD had Special Ops to rescue these fools. Unfortunately in some cases the victims perished, usually from drowning. Far worse when small children were involved.

If there’s high water, stay away!!

Cheers!

Bill
 
When the wife and I moved to Vegas a few years ago, I did a pretty thorough job of checking the demographics, neighborhoods, property tax rates, [no] state income tax, road/highway systems, etc., etc. And yes, I checked the weather.

But it was just a cursory check of the weather. Very hot for eight months with very minimal rain, about 4 inches a year. Keep in mind we moved from Fort Lauderdale which averaged about 65 inches a year! Turns out two things about the Vegas weather very much surprised us.

First was the wind, which on numerous occasions has reached tropical storm and category one hurricane levels, which included flipping over 18 wheelers.

The other surprising thing were the PSAs on TV and radio for monsoon season and flooding. I thought it was a joke or spoof. A couple inches of rain, flooding, people drowning? In South Florida you can get a couple inches of rain in a few hours. Ppppffft!

Turns out the ground in Nevada is very hard and does not absorb the water, which is the opposite of what I thought, that the ground would be dry and thirsty and absorb the water easily.
 
johngross said:
...Turns out the ground in Nevada is very hard and does not absorb the water, which is the opposite of what I thought, that the ground would be dry and thirsty and absorb the water easily.
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This is the problem we had up here after the previous really bad wildfire season in 2021, when the town of Lytton burned to the ground. The soil was so baked that when the rain did eventually come, it couldn't absorb it as normal and we had terrible flooding along the Fraser River and Fraser Valley, and across the border into WA. Much of our farm land adjacent to the border, which was a flood plain reclaimed in the 1920's, was completely inundated and devastated the important dairy farms there, and Sumas and Everson in WA were also flooded.

Mother Nature can be really mean when she gets ornery.
 
Looks like all the TV stations are back up, but the local weather radar at Searchlight is still down. That's going to make things tricky picking up localized storms and issuing flash flood warnings.:(
 
I sure hope some of that rain makes it up here to the PNW.
 
Our 30 y/o granddaughter lives in San Diego, we talked on the phone for a few minutes yesterday. Pls offer a prayer or two for her safety as this storm heads their way.
 
It is sort of nice to get these little rain spells, which means that I DON"T
have to get up and water the lawns !!
Also sort of fun, listing to the thunder, rolling across the area, as it scares the **** out of all the cats & dogs in Reno and Sparks, Nevada.
If it has lightning, it is a extra bonus, mostly if near sundown.
 
Steve, I spent most of yesterday in Vegas. Yawn
In the Philippines we get that much rain in about 10 seconds. :D
Hopefully, we get some of your 100 year even up here in Pahrump. It’ll be the most exciting thing to happen here since the monsoon 2 years ago. :)
 
Yesterday, NOAA was showing a flood warning for today here in Northern AZ, but today we're just showing a wind advisory and rain.

I was a little concerned about our new home in Southern AZ, but no warnings at all down there... too far East, I guess.
 
CH4 said:
Steve, I spent most of yesterday in Vegas. Yawn
In the Philippines we get that much rain in about 10 seconds. :D
Hopefully, we get some of your 100 year even up here in Pahrump. It’ll be the most exciting thing to happen here since the monsoon 2 years ago. :)
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I tend to agree. It is much worse in Vegas when the monsoon storms decided to gang up on the valley such as happened in 1999 IIRC. That day you could water ski without a boat on certain streets with a slope. The rain we have had in the last 24 hours has been steady and mostly gentle. The rainfall rate has been slow enough to allow the water to soak in quite well without much runoff.

Hilary has already been downgraded to a tropical storm, even so we are now under a strong wind warning starting at 1400 running to 0500 Monday. Whether that will be accompanied by heavier rain and thunderstorms remains to be seen. What is weird is looking at the local weather report and seeing 88% humidity.
 
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