Monsoon Come

Been off the grid for a bit, just seems like it is one thing after another and before you know it the whole week has slipped by. The Monsoon season now officially starts on 15 June and we have had a tease, clouds poking up into our part of the desert. We did get some storm activity, but unfortunately it was a dry storm - all lightning and no rain. This resulted in the Ethan fire on the Gila Indian reservation, not far from where I live. Far enough that the fire is no threat, but close enough we can smell the smoke and saw ash falling. That, high winds, and flooding are the biggest threats from our monsoonal storms. When a high and a low are in just the right position they drag moisture up from Mexico and we get some pretty fierce storms popping up.


I included some pictures I took a couple days ago, the fire was pretty intense at the time and formed its own cloud from condensation, sometimes called a Pyrocumulus. It was hard to pick the regular clouds from the smoke, in fact.

Hope everyone is having a great weekend!!!

The "Smokey" Mountains

Sunset

Moon Rise