Today, I am grateful for rain.
Tucson has a LOT of heat... but it also has these beautiful rainstorms. Not every day, but just about every day and a half, Tucson gets a HUGE thunderstorm. It may not last very long -- maybe 15 minutes, but it is BIG complete with thunder, lightning, wind, sheets of rain. It's called Monsoon Season.
Apparently, as a city, Tucson isn't very equipped to deal with heavy rain, and has flood warnings posted all over the city... but as a Coloradian for the past 4.5 years, I LOVE rain storms. We don't get rain storms -- REAL thunder storms. I can think of maybe 3 big thunder storms in my 4.5 years in Colorado. We get big snow storms, little rain showers, and plenty of droughts... but we don't big, beautiful thunder storms.
I am LOVING the Tucson monsoon season. It is a nice trade-off to the insane temperatures.
I took these pictures yesterday during a storm, and accidentally labeled them "typhoon" instead of "monsoon" -- clearly, I'm not from around these parts.
6 days down -- 14 to go!
Tucson has a LOT of heat... but it also has these beautiful rainstorms. Not every day, but just about every day and a half, Tucson gets a HUGE thunderstorm. It may not last very long -- maybe 15 minutes, but it is BIG complete with thunder, lightning, wind, sheets of rain. It's called Monsoon Season.
Apparently, as a city, Tucson isn't very equipped to deal with heavy rain, and has flood warnings posted all over the city... but as a Coloradian for the past 4.5 years, I LOVE rain storms. We don't get rain storms -- REAL thunder storms. I can think of maybe 3 big thunder storms in my 4.5 years in Colorado. We get big snow storms, little rain showers, and plenty of droughts... but we don't big, beautiful thunder storms.
I am LOVING the Tucson monsoon season. It is a nice trade-off to the insane temperatures.
I took these pictures yesterday during a storm, and accidentally labeled them "typhoon" instead of "monsoon" -- clearly, I'm not from around these parts.
6 days down -- 14 to go!
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