I am loving me this Arizona monsoon season. It's like a Florida thunderstorm that you can watch move across the desert and they smell better. But the general idea is the same: really really hot temperatures, then suddenly cooler, then dark clouds move across the sky, then thunder and lightening, then gallons upon gallons of rain water dumps to the ground. I'm fairly certain that Florida thunderstorms only seem like buckets of rain because the storms I remember only last for about 20 minutes max, and then they're done. Arizona monsoons can go on for over an hour and leave the parking lots and yards with inches of water for about three hours following the storm. In our area, the grassy yards had water in them for days. Luckily, the water doesn't get murky and it's not humid so there's no chance of mosquitos or other "vermin" like that. I just wish these were an everyday occurrence, but then I guess that would take away from the novelty of rainfall out here and when the monsoons dumped their gallons of rain people would just stay inside and not take pictures of the storm. I'd hate to see people not appreciate the rainfall out here, because right now, they're loving it and watching my neighbors take photos and video of the monsoon was almost better than the rainfall itself (which I greatly enjoyed listening to). 

I am loving me this Arizona monsoon season. It's like a Florida thunderstorm that you can watch move across the desert and they smell better. But the general idea is the same: really really hot temperatures, then suddenly cooler, then dark clouds move across the sky, then thunder and lightening, then gallons upon gallons of rain water dumps to the ground. I'm fairly certain that Florida thunderstorms only seem like buckets of rain because the storms I remember only last for about 20 minutes max, and then they're done. Arizona monsoons can go on for over an hour and leave the parking lots and yards with inches of water for about three hours following the storm. In our area, the grassy yards had water in them for days. Luckily, the water doesn't get murky and it's not humid so there's no chance of mosquitos or other "vermin" like that. I just wish these were an everyday occurrence, but then I guess that would take away from the novelty of rainfall out here and when the monsoons dumped their gallons of rain people would just stay inside and not take pictures of the storm. I'd hate to see people not appreciate the rainfall out here, because right now, they're loving it and watching my neighbors take photos and video of the monsoon was almost better than the rainfall itself (which I greatly enjoyed listening to).