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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.

Portal 7-Day Weather Forecast

Thanks to a brief hurricane, we caught what might be the last significant rain of the season. As usual, we are never satisfied. Bouts of low pressure hover over us, but not lasting very long. The lows move out and the high pressure systems take over and sit still!

We did get our usual variations in precipitation. Are you sitting down? Whitetail canyon received over 9 inches of rain during September. Now that’s what I call a monsoon!

Local Weather Stations

David Churchill's ASV Station

Bruce Weertman’s Portal Peak Ranch Weather Station

Limestone Mountain

Cave Creek Ranch

Randy Pfeiffer’s Portal Ridge Weather Station

Warren Forreys Weather Station

Monthly Summary

Check Out The Arizona Drought Monitor

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Drought Monitor - Looking A Lot Better

Check out the drought monitor and our recent haboob photos at the bottom of this page. Hooray - We moved up from Exceptional drought to Severe drought category.

Year Totals - 3 Sites Over 10 Years

Year Totals - 8 Sites Over 6 Years

Ray Brooks’ 20 Year Log Of Cave Creek

For the past twenty years the longest dry run of the creek not flowing over Foothills Rd was 476 days ending August 10 2021.

That record was broken four days ago August 25, 2025 and is ongoing today at 480 days.

The longest wet streak of the creek flowing in that 20 year period is 271 consecutive days ending April 15, 2012.

Hurricane Odille in the Fall of 2014 made the creek run for only 105 consecutive days ending November 10, 2014.

Haboobs - August 12, 2025

Tom Shields

Steve Wolfe