Despite a few sprinkles the past few days the drought continues here in the desert. We have a 10% chance of showers today, but really not a forecast of substantial rain. We are poised on the brink of the "monsoon" season here in the Desert Southwest--the time of year when the jet stream over America shifts in a particular way and allows moisture from the Gulf of Mexico to flow northward into the country. Although it becomes uncomfortably humid when that happens here in the desert we need the precipitation badly enough to gladly tolerate the discomfort.
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| Utility poles at the Lineman School |
2 comments:
Based on your second and fourth images, it looks like someone got some rain. We had one of the most intense thunderstorms I've ever experienced in my life last night in Fort Collins. The lightning was so frequent that it was like a strobe light--no kidding. When we went outside this morning, the areas under the trees looked like they were littered with green confetti. Our server at dinner this evening said that all of the windows of her mobile home were blown out during the storm. You don't need that kind of rain.
That sounds like one heck of a thunderbumper, Scott. I've been in a few like that, and they're downright frightening. I think your storm rolled out of the Rockies and later wreaked some real havoc in the plains and Midwest.
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