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Like a (major) storm in the desert - Floods in Pheonix AZ

DoomsDave

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I spent a while in the lobby of the Dark Tower yesterday, watching while rescuers in a copter tried to get a couple of people out of a house in the Phoenix area yesterday, after what was clearly a torrential rainstorm.

http://news.msn.com/us/floods-lead-to-dramatic-rescues-in-phoenix-area\

Arizona Palm Talkers, hope you're all right!

That's muddy water around that house in the picture, looks to be three feet deep. I'm loving California more and more . . . .

There was a crowd of about 30 people watching on TV yesterday.

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Looks like Phoenix got 2.9 inches of rain in a day, a new record for them.

http://news.msn.com/us/heavy-rains-pound-phoenix-close-roads-and-schools

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Dave,

The final, official rainfall total for yesterday (recorded at the Phoenix airport) was 3.29 inches. Some of the outlying burbs received over five inches. It is also noteworthy in that most of these rain totals were accumulated in under three hours. "Kleenex," Arizona usually receives fewer than eight inches in an entire year. I have lived here nearly 40 years, and I have never seen the Sonoran Desert so green this time of the year; looks like late February. My syagrus is sporting a huge grin. It actually looks nearly as lush as the millions all over coastal SoCal.

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Did Tucson get hit as bad as Phoenix too? I remember some of those summer monsoonal rains in Tucson when I was going to school there (U of A).

Hawaii Island (Big Island), leeward coast, 19 degrees N. latitude, south Kona mauka at approx. 380m (1,250 ft.) and about 1.6 km (1-mile) upslope from ocean.

 

No record of a hurricane passing over this island (yet!).  

Summer maximum rainfall - variable averaging 900-1150mm (35-45") - Perfect drainage on black volcanic rocky soil.  

Nice sunsets!

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displaced_floridian Community Regular

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It looks like another round is headed your way--courtesy of Odille. Let's hope it doesn't dump it all in one place in a short time again.

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