Sky Islands Climate

Panoramic illustrated banner of the Sky Islands Climate site: a saguaro-dotted desert foreground rising through hazy mid-elevation ranges to twin forested peaks, with the site title and tagline overlaid
  • Record Rain Can Make a Month

    Record Rain Can Make a Month

    Friday brought some heavy rain to Flagstaff’s airport. Below, you can see the record report from the National Weather Service. Before Friday, Flagstaff was well below normal for the month. A single storm can make or break a season for a single site. When you look below, the real challenge with precipitation in Arizona is…

  • Red sky at morning

    This morning’s sunrise over Anthem — the kind of sky that makes you understand why sailors turned it into a warning. Red sky at night, sailor’s delight. Red sky at morning, sailor’s take warning. The saying is a lot older than most people assume — over two thousand years old, by most accounts. The earliest…

  • Welcome to Sky Islands Climate

    If you’ve ever watched the 7-day forecast for Flagstaff change three times in two days, you already understand why this site exists. Models like GFS, ECMWF, ICON, and the NBM are genuinely good tools — but run them over Arizona’s sky island terrain, where elevation swings thousands of feet over a few miles, and their…

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