Several ‘waves’ of severe thunderstorms moved through the valley yesterday evening, resulting in very heavy rainfall, strong damaging winds and an absolutely incredible amount of lightning.
During the storms we recorded 206,780 strokes of lightning!!! The most active minute occurred at 9:25pm, when 1,321 strokes were recorded. In fact, at 9:18pm, 36strokes of lightning occurred […]

If you woke up to thunder and heavy rainfall this morning, you were likely not alone, as a strong thunderstorm to our northeast moved into the area this morning producing very heavy rainfall and fairly intense lightning.
Light rainfall began around 5:30am, with heavier rainfall moving into the region by 6:10am. The total rainfall with […]

The Monsoon Season was on a bit of a break between July 28th through August 1st, as an area of high pressure moved over/near the area resulting in a southwesterly to westerly flow across the region, which reduced the amount of moisture in the atmosphere. The high has since repositioned itself to our NE, over […]