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[*] posted on 7-26-2014 at 05:02 AM


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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsoon

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chubasco

Well, whadayaknow. Learn sumpin' new every day.

This means that the BFS that blossomed up like a rose out of nowhere the size of South Cape was a classic Chubasco, rather than a mere Tormenta and smaller than a Huracan. And the North American Monsoons are seasonal orographic moisture-laden weather patterns from the Mexican mountains streaming north up the cordilleras into Arizona, New Mexico, and points north.

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[*] posted on 7-26-2014 at 08:15 AM


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Arizona calls the summer rain 'monsoonal weather' according to my bro in Lake Havasu City.


They do indeed... and when the 'Zonies' come here to San Diego in the summer... they bring their terminology with them. We used to just call it 'tropical stuff from Baja'. A Chubasco is a wind event, sometimes a hurricane with rain, too... but that is used in Baja and I don't hear it in San Diego.
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So, when we in coastal San Diego look east and see the giant thunder clouds over the desert or our mountains, we know it could be raining or pouring. Sadly, it rarely makes all the way to the coast, but it was overcast most of today and a few drops of rain fell in San Marcos this afternoon when I came home from Oceanside.


Let's see "It rarely makes it all the way to the coast, etc."

[Edited on 7-26-2014 by Osprey]


That is correct, it rarely does... but earlier you asked if I said it comes from the east. It comes from the south, and can spread wide over the county and Imperial County (spreading east and west).

The 'weather' comes north from the Gulf of California (humidity, rain, etc.). It can daily build into giant thunderheads over the mountains of Baja and San Diego County (as well as Arizona and the Imperial Valley desert).

So, the weather event comes from the south and builds up over our mountains (to the east of San Diego) and sometimes spreads wide and clouds over coastal San Diego. A couple times a year we get rain, sometimes heavy, from this event. It is all too brief and not frequent enough in our coastal and inland valley areas of San Diego County.




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[*] posted on 7-26-2014 at 10:04 AM


the thunderheads come from the south on the wind over the desert east of here. sometimes the upper winds will spread these cells west over the mountains and OCCASIONALLY, we get rain in the summertime at the beaches in Sandy Eggo.



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[*] posted on 7-26-2014 at 02:48 PM


It makes up an important rainfall total and temp - Rh+ in the four corners regions summer months............ rain glorious rain
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