localweather | Tucson, AZ, USA

We're in the middle of our first major winter storm systems of the season (it's actually two lows chained together). Rainfall throughout the city has been .8" to 1.25" over the last 24 hours, after about .5" the previous night, and about 2" up on the mountains. It's early enough, though, that it's not cool enough for snow except on the very peaks.

Traffic this morning was not pretty, though at least for major rush hour, rain was on pause between bands of clouds. Our house and the couple blocks around it was without power when we woke up -- took a couple hours for repair crews to fix things.

Rain showers likely through the day, trailing off tonight, but the bulk of precipitation should already have fallen. It'll be chilly tonight, after the two cold fronts moving through. If it were a month later, we'd have frost tomorrow morning, but for now it'll just be time for jackets at dawn.

(Admin: Missing location.us.az.tucson and place.desert tags.)

---L.