Rain!!!! (Albuquerque, Taos, Manzano: rental car, for sale, rental)

[ABQConvict]

We are only at about 40% of the normal precipitation for the year (normal is 2.5", we have had less than 1").

It had been bone-dry and I don't think two or three days of intermittent, light drizzle and moderate humidity is getting us anywhere close to what we need.

And if the rain and humidity really are getting to you, console yourself with thoughts of the other 350 days a year of relentless sunshine. ;-)

Meanwhile, I'm keeping up the rain dances.


ABQConvict

[AlisonL]

I am sorry but I have to laugh...it does not get that humid here in NM. Try living in Maine, where the humidity is usually at least 40% every freaking day. Oh, try a day with 90% humidity and dewpoints in the 60s.

A couple of days of rain and humidity are heaven to me. Yes, my asthma might bother me a bit, but its much easier than trying to withstand the above mentioned days.

[Mike Horrell]

Originally Posted by AlisonL

I am sorry but I have to laugh...it does not get that humid here in NM.

Yeah, we moved here from Panama... there ain't no such thing as humidity in NM...

[SW Native]

Originally Posted by Mike Horrell

Yeah, we moved here from Panama... there ain't no such thing as humidity in NM...

See you're used to it so it feels like nothing, Meanwhile I've lived my whole life in the bone dry desert. So the slightest change in humidity, I feel it. As well as all the other natives I seen in gallup at the flea market

[the_mudman]

I absolutely love it when it rains in the desert... the cloud formations, the smell, the feel of the barometric pressure falling, the temperature extremes... it is pure poetry for the eyes.

In my youth during the days, I would enjoy myself an adult beverage on the back porch and get the Led out. Listening to "The Rain Song" with a mild buzz...

[red46]

Would you like to hear, from an old timer, who knows what the seasons are supposed to be in NM?
It used to be that in March, the winds came. It blew like a son of a gun for 2 weeks straight. The tumbleweeds were everywhere. Then they built on the west side and slowly, those sand storms have dimenished. RR blocks the city from the blowing sand.

Then everything calmed down and we had a genuine spring that actually turned into summer. Rain was seldom.

Then the first week in July, was the monsoon season and gardens busted out and grew like you thought it wasn't going to.

Then the favored time of the year, between monsoon and fall. It was the favored time for camping and getting outdoors. It was warm but not searing. Then we actually had a fall which slowly turned into winter.

Not so, any more. These days, the weather is absolutely insane, we have forest fires and fire warnings, like never before in history.

And do you want to know the difference? Look up, the next time our government decides we are getting too much sunshine and blue skies.

[rybert]

[karmathecat]

" Look up, the next time our government decides we are getting too much sunshine and blue skies. "

Do the black helicopters make the rain?

[rybert]

Chem-trails anybody?

[red46]

Originally Posted by rybert

Chem-trails anybody?

Exactly. And you guys think it's a joke. I've watched the changes these fake clouds have brought into NM. I've also watched what they can do to the whole region of Denver, Des Moines, Los Angeles, Phoenix. There's definitely a pattern and I've seen it at work in all 48 contiguous states. It's not a joke.