first real rain of season!

[Kali]

nice thunderstorm and downpour, 39/100

temp dropped almost 40 degrees in 30 minutes!

[MLAA]

1. Please send it to Tucson!

[Kali]

2. its coming

prob later this week. tomorrow is going to be another hell day (with added humidity, ugh) but it is starting. sure hope it will be somewhat normal this year!

[MLAA]

3. I'm not an earlier riser at all, but on Saturday mornings I take a 1.5 hour walk.

This morning had to start at 5am and it was already 98 degrees and humid!

[MLAA]

4. Getting some rain and lots of wind now! Yippee!

[Kali]

5. yeah both sides of this were fairly windy

what side of town are you on (Tucson, right?)

[MLAA]

6. East 🙂, and you?

[Kali]

7. I'm east of Benson

in Texas Canyon

[MLAA]

8. So beautiful there! Right out of a Wild West movie scene with all the boulders 🙂

[Kali]

11. and quite a few have been filmed in the area

nothing in the last few years though. used be some good extra income for site fees

[Ptah]

9. So this happened.

Saturday, July 11, here in Tucson.
Just after sunset, a sandstorm blew through my neighborhood.
Several lightning strikes nearby and then FLASH! CRACK!
Electrical service was no longer available.
In the dimming light I gathered all six leftover birthday candles
and charged my desktop fan from my laptop.
About ten minutes later, what sounded like a firing range erupted.
Eight or nine shots.
Several bottle rockets being launches and sirens, not close but frequent.
I propped opened the front and back wooden doors and left the security doors locked.
Nice breeze front to back.
In the near dark, I grabbed my desktop fan, my am/fm transistor radio, and my cell phone and retired for the evening.
About 3 hours later, I woke up to every digital clock flashing 12:28.
Went back to sleep, with my window air conditioner cooling my bedroom from 100 to 78.
Waking up semi-refreshed, I headed to the backyard to turn on my garden hose.
There, from the wooden door to the security screen, was a spider with single threads of web.
Fat black widow at shin height right in the center of the gap.

Okay, 2020, enough is enough.

P.S. The sandstorm brought 'six inches' of rain.
Translated that means the raindrops were six inches apart.

[Kali]

10. 100 indoors really sucks

didn't quite get there today, but cleared it yesterday

just had another little shower that cooled things down a bit, but more like your 6 incher - probably no reason to check the rain gauges yet

2020 is one for the books, that is for sure