You d think its July Outside!!

[LBTRS]

Originally Posted by steel7

Is this unsual weather for early may ?

Yes, more typical of monsoon season which doesn't start until early July. Don't normally see storms like that in May.

[sh9730]

Steel,

A little - not unheard of as I said in the original post - but it acted like our summer storms. Normally IF we get a storm in May at all (it is our driest month of the year), it comes it from the northwest off of the pacific and heads east. These very rarely produce T-storms - just widespread rain.

THIS little low pressure system slipped in from the south in Mexico and it was just warm enough to cause some unstable T-storms over the Mountains that then moved west (around the counter clockwise spinning low pressure) down into the valley and brought us quite a bit of wind etc and acted like our summer storms.

Java - as I said in the original post - I understood it wasnt really a monsoon storm (caused by LOW pressure rather than HIGH pressure in the summer), but as I described here, and you say, sure ACTED like a monsoon storm!

In the end, damage is damage....