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Yep, nothing in Santa Fe either except a few drops and a lot of wind and dust. I figured by the time I got home to take the laundry in it would be turned into mud but my housemate had taken it in. At least the temperature dropped--got chilly during the night. Nice.
jecc ~ Now I am really jealous ... that looks like some storm!
We watched the clouds all afternoon and they looked so promising ... and then it looked like everything went right around us. The temperature was great all day, but my flowers would have loved some rain.
I used to assume this was true everywhere. But here in the Sacramentos (and also where my folks live in West Texas) the hottest time of year is May or sometimes June. By July, the monsoon season begins and things cool off for the rest of the summer. Then comes fall, then snow.
Numbers aside, to me, here in Albuquerque, the worst heat of the year is during the AFTERNOONS the last two weeks of June and the first week or so of July. The June mornings are still usually quite nice (it was 57 degrees at my Foothills house this morning), but the relentless sunshine and high sun angle can make the heat feel intense during the afternoons. Usually, by July 5-10 when thunderstorm season kicks in, the combination of afternoon clouds and showers (even if they aren't over your head) begins to ease the situation. My favorite summer days are the "sloppy" few days in late July and August when clouds hang on the side of Sandia Peak during the morning, and we don't get enough sunshine to hit 80 degrees.
Many times during July or August, we've taken the camper down to some acreage we have in the Sacramento Mountains. It rarely fails. The temperature (7200 foot elevation) hits 80 about noon...then a thunderstorm rolls off the eastern slope of Sierra Blanca and drifts out into the Plains. The temperature at our place will drop to the 50s or 60s, and we end up turning the heater on for a while in the camper that evening.
My memory of Mississippi summers will always be with me, and I'll always enjoy the summers of New Mexico...at least...above 6000 feet!
Got thunder and another teaser rain in Nambe. Looking to the south I maybe see blue skies (hard to say for sure) over Santa Fe and to the west maybe a heavy rain over Los Alamos.
It's a long time since we had a real rain. Still the brief shower beaks the heat and tamps down the dust.
Got thunder and another teaser rain in Nambe. Looking to the south I maybe see blue skies (hard to say for sure) over Santa Fe and to the west maybe a heavy rain over Los Alamos.
It's a long time since we had a real rain. Still the brief shower beaks the heat and tamps down the dust.
Only drops & dark clouds in downtown Santa Fe. Yesterday it threatened rain when I got in the hammock with a book.
Well, my neighbors are saying it's monsoon season. We had rain 2 days in a row! Temps got down to 60 yesterday afternoon. This morning it's sunny, but I hear we are to get more rain this afternoon. I'm just enjoying the sun, and how green it is!
IF this is monsoon season starting .... are the monsoons always so sporadic? Is it normal to see storms all around us .... but day after day not get any rain??
My husband says the law of averages is sure to catch up with us ... and one of these days we will get some rain.
IF this is monsoon season starting .... are the monsoons always so sporadic? Is it normal to see storms all around us .... but day after day not get any rain??
My husband says the law of averages is sure to catch up with us ... and one of these days we will get some rain.
That may not apply to a drought. We are currently in a drought, and have been in one for quite some time. Perhaps global warming is also contributing to changes in our climate. Scientists are predicting up to a 7 degree change in temperature in the next few decades. I think the law of averages cannot be counted on when man-made changes are entered into the equation. Just think of how all of the agricultural land converted into growing corn for ethanol has disrupted the food supply. I think some of the hardest hit areas in New Mexico will be the Southwest corner in the Gilas, the Jemez, and the Sangre De Cristos. These mid to upper elevation forested and woodland areas cannot sustain much more of a prolonged drought and global warming. Someday soon the Jemez, Gila and Sangre De Cristos and other mountain systems might look like the Organ Mountains outside Las Cruces, and we will all be able to tell our grandchildren that these mountains once were green with trees and plants.
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teaser rain
Temps got down to 60 yesterday afternoon. This morning it's sunny, but I hear we are to get more rain this afternoon. I'm just enjoying the sun, and how green it is!
