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Weather - Precipitation

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 10-Day Weather Forecast


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

Monthly Summary


Check Out The Arizona Drought Monitor

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Drought Monitor

Who would have thunk that September would arrive and bail us out of a miserable hot and dry summer. While the creek ran briefly and with enough water to float a toothpick,  there was still not enough water to hold the annual regatta. Look at the photos below. How we doin’?


















Check out the drought monitor and our recent haboob photos at the bottom of this page. We are still in the Extreme-Exceptional drought categories.

Our Annual NONsoon?

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.

Year Totals - 3 Sites Over 10 Years

Year Totals - 8 Sites Over 6 Years

Haboobs - August 12, 2025

Tom Shields

Steve Wolfe