The winter storm exited Flagstaff Jan 8. The evening prior, I’d anticipated visiting the site in the morning to document whatever snow had accumulated overnight in the final throws of the weather pattern, planning to leave the pile intact to return [...]
Time-lapse video captures the dismantling of the pile of instruments: Video credit: Mark Neumann
Headlines: Two feet in three days? An El Niño-driven storm track has snow piling up in Flagstaff through Friday; ADOT Closes I-17 South of Flagstaff Due to Heavy Snowfall. Finally, measurable snow is on the pile of instruments. We spent [...]
Continuing to check weather reports on the phone, comparing disparate forecasts from multiple weather channels for the approaching series of storms. According to the NOAA Climate Prediction Center, “Thanks to El Niño, northern Arizona is likely to see near or [...]
Patience. The pile of instruments seems to be positioned in the rain shadow of the San Francisco Peaks, a little haven of unwelcome sunshine in otherwise stormy northern Arizona. Revisiting the pile of instruments day after day, watching periodic flurries [...]
