Arivaca Watershed Education Taskforce

07/11/2022

Directing pavement runoff to boost pavement-side life, while increasing available rainfall multifold... A parking orchard of low-water-use, food-producing shade trees passively irrigated by runoff from a raised parking area harvested within sunken, mulched basins. Ideally, many perennial understory....

06/13/2022

12/17/2021

La Nina

After a cooler than normal day today, milder weather will return over the following 9 days. This is a very La Nina like winter for southern Arizona thus far as they typically lean warmer and drier than normal overall.

09/06/2021

Watch the path of a raindrop from anywhere in the contiguous United States

08/11/2021

Monsoon update meeting on Saturday August 14 at 11 am at Arivaca Schoolhouse.

08/02/2021

Long read.

One legal loophole might change everything.

08/01/2021

Pending cutbacks mean Arizona will lose fully one-third of our annual allocation of Colorado River water — with even more punitive cuts pending. As Lake Mead’s dire water level begins to capture public attention, a complex situation grows more challenging to understand even on a good day.

07/20/2021

https://climas.arizona.edu/swco/southwest-climate-outlook-july-2021/enso-tracker-july-2021

ENSO Tracker - July 2021 Sea surface temperature (SST) forecasts for Aug – Oct 2021 call for cooling conditions across the equatorial Pacific (Fig. 1). The current Nino 3.4/4 anomalies have returned to the range of neutral (Fig. 2). The ENSO outlooks note the persistence of neutral conditions in t...

07/20/2021

El El Nino and La Nina are complex weather patterns resulting from variations in ocean temperatures in the Equatorial Pacific.

07/17/2021

Friday, July 16, 2021. My gauge was one of the low numbers.

Rainfall has been highly variable & very heavy in a few locations with localized amounts around 4 inches. In the graphic, red is 2+ inches & dark red is 3+ inches. Storms continuing into the evening.

Here is a partial list of 12 hr rain amounts. https://bit.ly/3wJiSXy