Monthly Archives: July 2018

Forecast for Monday, July 16, 2018

Daily Forecast

What a weekend! Highs both days only in the 80s with refreshing morning rain. The heat is returning by the end of the week, but we still have a few more days of hit and miss storms. Hopefully they’ll hit near you!

Still plenty of moisture in place today with scattered afternoon and evening storms possible and a high in the mid 90s.

Scattered showers and storms tonight with a low in the upper 70s.

Scattered storms tomorrow with a high in the upper 90s.

Drier air working it’s way our way as we enter the second half of the week and high pressure building in by this weekend as well. Storm chances waning with only isolated storms raining. Highs getting higher as the air gets drier. Still a 20% chance for storms Wednesday mid 90s. 20% Thursday upper 90s. 20% Friday 101ish. 20% Saturday 102. 10% Sunday 104. Viva Monsoon 2018!

Forecast for Sunday, July 15, 2018

Daily Almanac

Yesterday’s high of 86 was a new record low high temperature for the date! The light rain in the late morning and cloud cover throughout the day put a damper on storms, but most of us got in on some light rain (half the calories of our regular rain). The airport picked up .08″ which isn’t nothing.

Showers and thunderstorms moving through Oro Valley as I write this just before 5:00 a.m. with more activity to our north and northwest. Look for showers and storms to move through the area this morning (you think?!). It’s possible that our morning rain may put the breaks on our afternoon/evening chances, but maybe not. Time will tell (just being honest). Today’s high near 92. Enjoy this morning’s showers and hope we can recharge the atmosphere for more later today.

Showers and storms possible tonight with a low in the mid 70s.

Scattered storms tomorrow and tomorrow night with a high in the mid 90s. 40% chance Tuesday too with a high in the mid 90s.

High pressure building in just to our east and close enough to inhibit storms chances, but still a chance. Warmer too. 20% Wednesday mid 90s. 10% Thursday upper 90s. 10% Friday 103ish. 10% Saturday 106! Viva Monsoon 2018!

Forecast for Saturday, July 14, 2018

Daily Forecast

A day today similar to yesterday. Round and round the thunderstorms go. Exactly where they’ll hit, nobody knows. Hopefully near you! Upper 90s again today with some clearing skies this morning. Storms will have no problem forming over the mountains, but with a weak steering flow they’ll have a tough time drifting over valley locations. However, all is not lost. Just like yesterday we should see some storms pop up just about anywhere. Where they do there will be a potential for heavy rainfall.

Storm chances continue tonight mainly before midnight. Again with locally heavy rain and a low in the mid 70s.

Scattered storms tomorrow low 90s. 30% chance Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday mid 90s. High pressure forming closer to us late in the week with less storms but still a chance. Warmer too. 10% chance Thursday near 100ish. 20% Friday 102. Viva Monsoon 2018!

Forecast for Friday, July 13, 2018

Daily Forecast

Heavy rain for some yesterday! Hopefully near you. The south side and downtown got drenched. Also another brief heavy shower here in southern Oro Valley around 6:30 last night. Chance for storms go down a bit today, but some of the storms that form will have locally heavy rainfall once again. Plenty of sunshine later this morning into the afternoon hours to help the cause. Storms will easily form on the mountains late morning or early afternoon. Weak steering winds will likely keep them there, but again, isolated storms are possible just about anywhere in the area this afternoon/evening. Today’s high in the upper 90s.

Isolated storms ending tonight with a low in the upper 70s.

Storm chances ramp back up tomorrow with a 30% chance tomorrow and a 50% chance by evening and a high in the mid 90s.

Scattered storms Sunday low 90s. 30% Monday mid 90s. 20% Tuesday and Wednesday upper 90s. 10% Thursday near 100ish. Viva Monsoon 2018!

Forecast for Thursday, July 12, 2018

Daily Almanac

Busted! Yesterday’s promise of scattered storms with heavy rain really didn’t come true. So what happened? We had a few storms in the late morning that spread clouds across the area shutting off our surface heating. As a result we lost our instability, so almost no storms. We only hit 88 for a high, so that was “cool”.

We make another run at it today. If we can manage enough sunshine today we should see scattered storms, some with heavy rain, hopefully near you! A disturbance over the area should help as well. The airport already picked up a quarter inch of rain from 3:10 this morning until 3:30! That shower moved over parts of the east side. Let’s add to those totals today, shall we?! High in the low 90s.

What storms we get should end by before midnight tonight with a low in the mid 70s.

Scattered storms possible tomorrow with a high in the upper 90s. Good chance for storms Saturday with a high in the mid 90s. 30% chance for storms Sunday and Monday with highs in the mid to upper 90s respectively. 20% chance Tuesday and Wednesday near 100. Viva Monsoon 2018!