So far so good...

When SE Arizona starts getting monsoons, the temps are usually a crap shoot. We have to wait to see what the trend will be. In a good year we'll get both a lot of  monsoon rain plus cooler temps... the temps don't necessarily correlate with the rains.

So far this year the monsoons (which started early in late June!) seem to be giving us pretty good rain fall and manageable temps. Yee haw!!

T-Storm in New Mexico a little west of Santa Fe Skies RV Park about July 2011. New Mexico is also in the path of the monsoons and has a share of the rain they bring to the American Southwest. That 200 kW solar array (lower left) can't earn its keep with all the cloud cover!

We had a 'gully washer' yesterday. As of 22 July that brings the monthly accumulated rainfall to 3.35". That compares to 1.5" as about the minimum in a monsoon season during July. On the high side we had a one-time monsoon season where July hit 4.5"... that was spectacular. And scarey!! During that event I recall a streak of muddy water streaming down our street. That muddy water was washing away from the plateau above the park where the 500,000 gallon city water tank is located. I had the uneasy feeling that huge tank was about to relocate itself! A long time resident of SKP Saguaro assured us 'it's nothing new... about what you can expect with a good T-storm!'

Pretty good start to 2024 monsoons!
 

So we're having a decent start to monsoons as of late July 2024. Fingers crossed it continues for the rest of this monsoon season!

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