Yea! After over two months with nary a drop of rain we are in the midst of beautiful thunderstorm!
Living in a desert region gives you in increased appreciation of water of all types but especially rain. Today's storm marks a change in the seasons for us. After about six weeks of very hot (as high as 100 degrees) and very dry (as low as 2% humidity), today marks the beginning of what is called the monsoon, the rainy season. Now those of you in Houston won't think much of our "rainy" season as we only get about 20 inches of rain a year (!) but for us it is a welcome change. Out temperature has dropped a full 10 degrees in the last couple of hours.
As I understand it, about this time of year the prevailing winds change, bringing moist air up from Mexico and the Gulf to water the poor thirsty desert. This is the ocean brought hundreds of miles to us. Although we've leave the ocean when we moved away from Houston, we haven't been abandoned by it.
The local (actually Phoenix) newscasters have been talking about this change for weeks. They even had a special several weeks ago talking about the dangers--flash flooding mostly. I had to agree with my dear friend Alice who was here for the last couple of weeks from Florida that the overwrought newscasts concerning the monsoon practically equaled that of hurricane season in Texas and Florida. LOL
This break in the summer weather may not last but we should now be past the hottest part of the summer as we should get a similar (more or less) rainstorm every afternoon. Yea!
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