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EARLY MORNING ARIZONA WEATHER SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHOENIX AZ
530 AM MST THU OCT 22 1998

.SYNOPSIS...
A LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM OVER CALIFORNIA WILL CONTINUE MOVING TO THE
NORTH...WHILE THE AIR REMAINS RATHER MOIST OVER ARIZONA. CLOUDS WILL
LIKELY THICKEN TODAY AND PRODUCE MORE SHOWERS...ESPECIALLY IN THE
NORTH AND EAST PORTIONS. A FEW THUNDERSTORMS CANNOT BE RULED OUT.
A SLOW DRYING TREND IS EXPECTED BY FRIDAY AND SATURDAY...ALONG WITH
WARMER DAYTIME READINGS. A MAJOR CHANGE TO WINDY AND COOLER WEATHER
WILL OCCUR BY SUNDAY AND MONDAY...ALONG WITH A CHANCE OF RAIN AND
MOUNTAIN SNOW SHOWERS UP NORTH.

.SUMMARY...
IT WAS RATHER QUIET ACROSS THE SOUTHWEST PART OF THE GRAND CANYON
STATE OVERNIGHT...WITH VARIABLE CLOUDINESS AND MILD TEMPERATURES.
HOWEVER...SATELLITE PHOTOS AND DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED TWO AREAS OF
SIGNIFICANT WEATHER. HEAVY RAIN OCCURRED IN PAGE...AND THUNDERSTORMS
HIT THE LAKE MEAD AREA. FOR THE 6 HOURS ENDING AT 5 AM...PAGE HAD
PICKED UP ONE-THIRD OF AN INCH. ELSEWHERE PRESCOTT AIRPORT HAD .04
AND KINGMAN HAD A MERE TRACE.

OVERNIGHT TEMPERATURES WERE MAINLY IN THE 40S IN THE HIGH COUNTRY
AND IN THE 60S MOST DESERT LOCATIONS. SOME 5 OCLOCK TEMPERATUR ES
INCLUDED 70 IN PHOENIX...65 IN YUMA...64 IN TUCSON...59 IN
SAFFORD...AND 45 IN BOTH FLAGSTAFF AND WINDOW ROCK. DEW POINTS WERE
ALSO RATHER HIGH...AND THE RELATIVE HUMIDITY WAS 100 PER CENT AT
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