Rain in the forecast

[KGAINES]

Forecast Conditions High/Low ?F Precip.

Today

Mar 5 Partly Cloudy

81?/53? 0%

81?F

 

Mon

Mar 6 Cloudy

79?/49? 10%

79?F

 

Tue

Mar 7 Partly Cloudy

76?/47? 0%

76?F

 

Wed

Mar 8 Partly Cloudy

68?/46? 20%

68?F

 

Thu

Mar 9 Few Showers

71?/44? 30%

71?F

 

Fri

Mar 10 Few Showers

67?/40? 30%

67?F

 

Sat

Mar 11 Showers

65?/40? 40%

65?F

 

Sun

Mar 12 Scattered Showers

68?/43? 60%

68?F

 

Mon

Mar 13 Sunny

75?/43? 0%

75?F

 

Tue

Mar 14 Showers

71?/45? 40%

71?F

[Guest Ernesto C]

Rain????......................what is the rain?

[peloncillo]

I'll believe it when I see it

 

Keven

[bowhunter4life]

let it rain..... let it rain... lord we need it....

[AZP&Y]

People in the field have relayed what we already know.

 

Let's hope for a real change in the forecast:

 

Drought causing alarm in Arizona; snow measuring sites are bare

By The Associated Press Saturday, March 04, 2006

 

PHOENIX (AP) -- Arizona's driest winter in at least 65 years is causing alarm among scientists and government agencies, who say it has no precedent.

 

Twenty-nine of 34 snow measuring sites monitored by the U.S. Natural Resources Conservation Service had no snow -- the barest the survey sites have been going back to the earliest records in the late 1930s.

 

"Arizona is off the bottom of the charts," said Tom Pagano, a hydrologist for the service in Portland, Ore. "This year is unlike anything we've ever seen before."

 

A survey team scouting for snow this week in the San Francisco Peaks outside Flagstaff found just 4 inches where there should have been more than 50.

Snowpack is critical for Arizona's water supplies, feeding the streams and reservoirs that supply Phoenix, Flagstaff and dozens of other communities.

 

"We were all thinking that 2002 had been a once-in-a-lifetime event, that it would never happen again," Pagano said of what was thought of as the driest year ever. "So far, this year is worse than 2002."

 

Friday marked the 136th consecutive day without rain at Sky Harbor International Airport.

 

"We just never had a snowpack," said Larry Martinez, water supply specialist for the NRCS Phoenix office. "It just never developed."

 

The U.S. Forest Service imposed restrictions in four areas last month, the earliest the agency had ever taken such steps. Forest closures are possible by spring.

 

Jim deVos, research chief for the Arizona Game and Fish Department, said the drought is expected to take a heavy toll on wildlife. Air quality has also been hurt because there has been no rain to wash pollution out of the atmosphere

 

Arizona Pope and YOung

[Idahocoueshunter]

Wish you could have some of mine. I still have 2 feet in the front yard, with more forcasted for later in the week. Early arriving Robins sure look confused.

 

 

 

 

Craig