David Wolfson
EF5
As the season shifts gears, this day appears to present the historical combination of shear and moisture that can produce quasi-supercellular severe in western AZ. The approaching trough should set up our version of a dryline along the Colorado River to interact with the ambient moisture still sloshing around from our rather pathetic monsoon enhanced by our version of a LLJ up from the northern Gulf of California.
This is a marginal situation, with too much dry air at mid- and upper-levels to get excited about the possibilities. However any storms that do initiate have a spectacular natural setting and a minor spinup isn't out of the question. I would head up US93 northwest of Wickenburg, target, Nothing, AZ. Really! And you thought I'm joking!...
http://www.panoramio.com/photo/21633203
This is a marginal situation, with too much dry air at mid- and upper-levels to get excited about the possibilities. However any storms that do initiate have a spectacular natural setting and a minor spinup isn't out of the question. I would head up US93 northwest of Wickenburg, target, Nothing, AZ. Really! And you thought I'm joking!...
http://www.panoramio.com/photo/21633203