Rosa’s rain moves out, but another storm could be on the way
Oct 3, 2018, 11:59 AM | Updated: 8:41 pm
Pedestrians walk through a flooded street as they try to unclog storm drains during a flash flood as a result of heavy rains from tropical storm Rosa Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2018, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
(AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
PHOENIX — Tropical Depression Rosa has left Arizona, but rain isn’t necessarily done with the Phoenix area just yet.
“Rosa … it’s gone, fizzled out,” ABC15 meteorologist Iris Hermosillo said Wednesday on KTAR 92.3 FM Arizona’s Morning News, but “now we’re actually tracking a new storm system that’s coming in from our west.
“That is what is going to keep our unsettled weather around.”
Rosa left behind 2.36 inches of rain on Tuesday, a local record for a day in October. Dry riverbeds filled with water, streets flooded, schools were closed and several Valley cities were placed under flash flood watches.
Alright…did some official updating to this chart. Suffice to say it has been raining today! #azwx pic.twitter.com/FFHEr7dVGy
— NWS Phoenix (@NWSPhoenix) October 3, 2018
The deluge also was the eighth-wettest day ever for the Valley.
Water flowing out of the Tempe Town Lake Dam into the usually dry Salt River after yesterday’s record busting rainfall. @KTAR923 @AZMorningNews pic.twitter.com/M7CbCYo0nT
— Jim Cross (@Crossfire923) October 3, 2018
“I had to keep adding … that’s for sure, because it just kept coming down,” Hermosillo said.
“Every few minutes our rain amounts kept going up and up and up.”
#abc15wx https://t.co/CSAzvep44D
— Iris Hermosillo (@IrisABC15) October 3, 2018
A flash flood watch remained in place for central Arizona into the evening rush hour. Scattered showers were expected through the day.
There will be a break from the rain which has been falling since Sunday.
Thursday should be “mostly sunny and dry, Friday abundant sunshine,” Hermosillo said.
She added a few more 90-degree days were possible. As for 100-degree days, “For now, it’s looking like we’re done.”
