Tucson Monsoon Weather – 8/25/18

We saw lots of interesting weather last week.  Had lightning and rain a few days in a row.  The pattern continues to emerge that (at this scale) when humidity intersects temperature it signifies rain.

Also, I now have enough light intensity data (both visible and infrared) to plot now.  I don’t see any real trends with this new data other than luminosity is a proxy for cloud coverage (temperature is another one, but perhaps situations will emerge where light measurement may forecast rain).  Eventually we’ll see the trend where shortening days impact temperature (please, soon!).  As always, you get better chart detail by looking at the .pdf chart.  Stay tuned as I continue to explain how the data collection system works and what the long term goals for the data is.

lightning_sensor_data_plot

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