Candy's Sunsets, Clouds and Other Things in the Sky

Monsoons mean rain and Tucson certainly gets rain. Granted, it's not like Florida gets rain.

For the most part, the moisture originates in the Gulf of California, not that far to the south of us. Clouds start for form here late in the afternoon, around 5 or 5:30. Then there's thunder and lightening like nothing I've ever seen before. It will rain for 15 minutes to an hour, then it's over.

Unlike in the east where rain systems will cover half a state or more, the rain here covers a neighborhood. It could be raining over my house and be dry as a bone only a few blocks away.

If you start to think these palm trees look a little familiar, you're right. All the photographs were taken from our house. We don't have to go looking for this stuff ... it comes to us.

The Monsoon Season just started ... just a couple of days ago, as a matter of fact. These clouds were the remnants of a hurricane that blew through Texas a little less than a week ago. They were a prelude to about an inch of rain that came in from the east of us.

Around 9:30 pm the lights went out ... and stayed out. The storm took out some ten power poles around Speedway Blvd. and Houghton Road, two of the main cross street near our house. Things are back to normal now, but there should be another blow with rain along this evening, too. It's Monsoon Season, after all. And so much for:

Red sky in the morning
Sailors take warning
Red sky at night
Sailors delight

We came out to Tucson in August, 2002 to close on the house and to a little "paint-up, fix-up"

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