Friday, August 05, 2011

Live-Blogging ABQ Storms - 08/05/11

The band of humid air is now fairly-narrow. Let's see if it can be made to rain out.

(1:00 PDT) First gust front of the day travels down the slopes of Mt. Taylor onto the Laguna Reservation.

(1:30 p.m. PDT) That gust front helps vivify a storm cell near San Ysidro.

(2:15 p.m. PDT) At northern end of gust front, Zia storm moving into Jemez. At southern end, cells are trying to ride the outflow boundary, south of Highway 6. meanwhile, the weakened front itself arrives in the ABQ area.

(2:55 p.m. PDT) What's this? Thunderstorms heading east, in concert, and currently cresting over Mt. Taylor.

(3:20 p.m. PDT) Thunderstorm wall breaks into two parts. Southern wall collapsing, and gust front is shooting ahead eastwards near Highway 6.

(4:30 p.m. PDT) Gust front arrives in South Valley. Storms make an advance. Small cells appear south of Airport, and in Rio Rancho.

(4:45 p.m. PDT) The collapse of the northern wall near Mt. Taylor earlier sent another gust front eastwards, which is moving across the southern flank of the Jemez, and helping the Rio Rancho storm strengthen as it now moves into the Rio Grande Valley. The Airport storm moved into the Manzanos, where it strengthened due to orographic effects.

(5:45 p.m. PDT) Multiple weak gust fronts: easterly, near Canoncito, westerly along Rio Grande River, south-westerly, in Rio Rancho. Approaching rain from the west weakening; rain on east side of Sandias, Manzanos strengthening, as it heads east.

(6:30 p.m. PDT) Gust fronts passed through each other near the Volcanoes (or at least that's what it looked like on radar).

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