Despite a nearly four-inch rainfall deficit for 2012, Tucson will close out the year cold and wet.
Through noon, Tucson International Airport — the city's official recording site — has received a quarter-inch of precipitation.
A Pima County Regional Flood Control District gauge at Sabino Creek on Mount Lemmon has reported the highest area rain total in the past 24 hours — 0.70 inches.
Though rain is welcome, snow is the story in several Cochise County cities. According to the National Weather Service, Tucson Weather Forecast Office, Bisbee has picked up nine inches of snow since yesterday. Naco reports eight inches of snow. Douglas has seen three inches of snow, and Sierra Vista records 2.7 inches of snow as of 7 a.m.
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