Mostly cloudy. Rain and snow likely in the evening...a chance of snow and rain after midnight. Snow accumulation 1 to 2 inches. Snow level 4500 feet decreasing to 3500 feet after midnight. Lows 27 to 35. Southwest winds 15 to 20 mph in the evening becoming light. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
Wednesday
Mostly sunny. A chance of snow and rain in the morning...a slight chance of rain in the afternoon. Little or no snow accumulation. Storm total snow accumulation 1 to 2 inches. Snow level 3500 feet increasing to 5500 feet in the afternoon. Highs 44 to 52. Light winds becoming northwest around 15 mph late in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation 30 percent.
There are currently no warnings or advisories for this location.
Record Report
Statement as of 10:00 am MST on December 22, 2009
... Record high low temperatures for northern Arizona on Dec 22 2009...
City (period of record) new high low previous record/year Petrified Forest (1931 - 2009) 37 37 (tied) in 1983
These records are preliminary pending official reports.
Public Information Statement
Statement as of 9:50 PM MST on December 22, 2009
... 950 PM MST storm total snowfall summary from the winter storm...
Snow started to fall early Tuesday morning over northern Arizona and has continued across much of Arizona this evening. Winter weather advisories and winter storm warnings will continue for most areas above 6000 feet tonight and into Wednesday morning. The greatest accumulations so far have been over the higher terrain near the Grand Canyon and west of Flagstaff... and along the central Mogollon Rim south and east of Flagstaff.
Some storm total snowfall reports received by 950 PM MST include:
Jacob Lake 15 to 16 inches (600 PM report) Grand Canyon South Rim 8 to 10 inches (600 PM report) 12 miles north of Parks 11 inches (830 PM report) Parks 10 inches (900 PM report) Munds Park 9 to 10 inches (945 PM report) Clints Well 8 inches (600 PM report) Williams 6 to 10 inches (900 PM report) Bellemont 7 inches (915 PM report) kachina Village 6.5 inches (900 PM report) Forest Lakes 5 inches (915 PM report) Show Low 5 inches (900 PM report) alpine 5 inches (910 PM report) Flagstaff west side 4 to 6 inches (920 PM report) St mary's mission (pinion) 4.5 inches (635 PM report) Heber 4 inches (900 PM report) Pine 4 inches (945 PM report) Strawberry 3 inches (900 PM report) Prescott (highland pines) 3 inches (600 PM report) Star Valley 2 to 3 inches (900 PM report) St Johns 2 inches (900 PM report) Payson 2 inches (600 PM report) Window Rock 2 inches (905 PM report) Flagstaff east side 1 inch (915 PM report) Doney Park 1 inch (900 PM report) Snowflake 1/2 inch (915 PM report)