Approaching Monsoon
Aug 15, 2022 12:08:31 #
Activity last night from the backyard. We called them thunderstorms in the Bronx but out here they're monsoons. A distinction without a difference. Got about 15 minutes of very much needed hard rain.
Aug 15, 2022 12:10:49 #
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Aug 15, 2022 12:17:24 #
Please arrange to green everything up. 
I'll be travelling to Mesa for a family reunion in early October.
I'll be travelling to Mesa for a family reunion in early October.Aug 15, 2022 12:28:30 #
Like the photo --
They can call it what they like -- It's still water!!
Hope some of that runs off into the Colorado River --
We are drinking out of canteens in ever-so-dry SOCAL
They can call it what they like -- It's still water!!
Hope some of that runs off into the Colorado River --
We are drinking out of canteens in ever-so-dry SOCAL
Aug 15, 2022 13:15:26 #
ken_stern wrote:
Like the photo --
They can call it what they like -- It's still water!!
Hope some of that runs off into the Colorado River --
We are drinking out of canteens in ever-so-dry SOCAL
They can call it what they like -- It's still water!!
Hope some of that runs off into the Colorado River --
We are drinking out of canteens in ever-so-dry SOCAL
Monsoon rains are impressive but unfortunately not impacting on the overall drought. The only hope for the LA and Phoenix basins is several years of above average rain and snow fall in the Colorado River watershed.
Aug 15, 2022 13:16:18 #
Aug 15, 2022 13:19:52 #
Curmudgeon wrote:
Monsoon rains are impressive but unfortunately not impacting on the overall drought. The only hope for the LA and Phoenix basins is several years of above average rain and snow fall in the Colorado River watershed.
So right, Curmudgeon. We have plenty of water. It's just not in the right place. If they can build a pipeline from Canada to Texas to carry oil they certainly can build one from Washington State or the Great Lakes to fill Powell and Mead without putting a dent in the northern water supply. Not only will that solve the issue for water for people but would create more farmland out of desert to ease the food supply for the world. Win, win.
Aug 16, 2022 08:03:42 #
Nice shot. It looks as if the golf course has been well-watered, rain or no.
Aug 16, 2022 08:09:06 #
Aug 16, 2022 09:15:27 #
tomc601 wrote:
Activity last night from the backyard. We called them thunderstorms in the Bronx but out here they're monsoons. A distinction without a difference. Got about 15 minutes of very much needed hard rain.
Aug 16, 2022 09:49:29 #
StanMac
Loc: Tennessee
tomc601 wrote:
Activity last night from the backyard. We called them thunderstorms in the Bronx but out here they're monsoons. A distinction without a difference. Got about 15 minutes of very much needed hard rain.
Nice picture, but we call that a pop up summer shower in these parts. Although it seems those pop up summer showers are dropping a lot more rain than I remember them having back in the 50’s in my youth.
Stan
Aug 16, 2022 09:54:58 #
Aug 17, 2022 22:48:41 #
Craig Meyer
Loc: Sparks, NV
tomc601 wrote:
Activity last night from the backyard. We called them thunderstorms in the Bronx but out here they're monsoons. A distinction without a difference. Got about 15 minutes of very much needed hard rain.
We called 'm that in Astoria, too. But the difference here is the Monsoon is a warm wet flow to a lower pressure drier air location. We live near Reno, NV and, thankfully, we get some South to North.
And thunder it did.
Gift horses of the wet variety are very welcome these days.
C
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