Portal, AZ - Rodeo, NM

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Weather - Precipitation

Meteorology versus Meteors


If a meteorologist studies weather, what do we call a person who studies meteors? In the days of ancient Greeks, meteorology was the study of the atmosphere, and anything that came out of it - rain, sleet, snow, hail. So, not too surprising that meteorology became the study of weather. But what about meteors? The science of meteors is called Meteorics. Accordingly, a student of meteors is a meteoriticist. A tongue twister to be sure.

Monthly Summary

 The strong El Niño event underway in the Pacific Ocean continued to impact the storm track across the northern hemisphere. Arizona benefited from this shift in storm track with several widespread precipitation events impacting the state this past month.

The El Niño event of this past winter has started to wane, but is expected to impact weather patterns at least through the end of March. Short-term climate outlooks issued by the NOAA Climate Prediction Center suggest that wetter-than-average conditions may continue through March, but then uncertainty grows for the rest of the spring season



Check out the drought monitor (below) for February- Slightly Better!

Year Totals - 8 Sites Over 6 Years

Year Totals - 3 Sites Over 9 Years

Drought Monitor