Monsoon Coming to an End (Scottsdale: house, live, moving)

[New Horizons]

Are we getting towards the end of monsoon season? I read in here that shortly after labor day things begin to dry out a little. Even if the humidity gets under 15% it will feel better. You'd think I could handle humidity easily, being a native Floridian. But I've become a humidity wimp, the heat I can handle though. Everything feels so much gentler when it's dry, in bed your sheets have that smooth dry feel, and your loin region never gets sticky.

I know it's part of the desert ecosystem to have this seasonal humidity and rain, without it we probably couldn't inhabit this part of the country. But I'm looking forward to when these puffy rain clouds are replaced by those light, airy clouds with that dry brown hazy layer at the horizon, you know what I'm talking about right

[Steve-o]

Im enjoying the lowering humidity levels that the last week has brought, along with the cooler nighttime temps. We are scheduled for some more rain on Tues and Wed, so I expect higher humidity and more flooding if we get rain, but from here on out, storms will become less frequent.

[cjs123]

Also loving those lower nighttime temps; love watching the sky at night/dawn, though I did get chomped a few times by mosquitos and some other weird thing.

The Texas sage looks GORGEOUS right now; blooming like crazy. The bees are loving it, too.

[Steve-o]

Originally Posted by cjs123

though I did get chomped a few times by mosquitos and some other weird thing.

The skeeters have been horrid this year. Ive learned to take a fan out with me at night, and have it set to "high", blowing right on me, to keep those nasty little cusses at bay.

[cjs123]

I had a bee start dive-bombing me in the middle of the night, right in the middle of the yard--I wasn't even standing near any trees or shrubs! I walked into the house and he zoomed in ahead of me and flew into the guest bathroom. I closed the door and put a towel at the bottom; didn't open that door for two days. By then he was a goner; I would have been glad to usher him back outside, but he seemed more interested in zooming around me with a very LOUD buzz! I don't usually encounter bees flying around during the night; maybe he was a night-owl like me.

[Steve-o]

Best leave those alone, you did the right thing. There a problem with Africanized bees here, dont wanna **** those buggers off!

[cjs123]

Yeah, I've been hearing about those. I honestly don't know if that was one or not and didn't even think of it at the time, which was probably a good thing.

"Remain calm...proceed to the nearest exit..."

[DetroitN8V]

Originally Posted by cjs123

Yeah, I've been hearing about those. I honestly don't know if that was one or not and didn't even think of it at the time, which was probably a good thing.

"Remain calm...proceed to the nearest exit..."

If it was a wild honey bee, it's almost a guarantee that it was an Africanized one. Odd that it would be flying at night through.

[stevek64]

The monsoon officially ends Sept 30 but usually ends within the first few weeks in September for the most part based on my experience. Dry air is right around the corner!

Originally Posted by cjs123

I had a bee start dive-bombing me in the middle of the night, right in the middle of the yard--I wasn't even standing near any trees or shrubs! I walked into the house and he zoomed in ahead of me and flew into the guest bathroom. I closed the door and put a towel at the bottom; didn't open that door for two days. By then he was a goner; I would have been glad to usher him back outside, but he seemed more interested in zooming around me with a very LOUD buzz! I don't usually encounter bees flying around during the night; maybe he was a night-owl like me.

Sounds like you have a nest near by or perhaps you got caught up in a nest migration. I once witnessed a bee migration where literally thousands of bees were flying above me as I went to get the mail one morning. There were so many, they threw a shadow on the road and my mind took a minute to compute what was going on it looked so surreal. The buzzing sound was very loud also. I just froze and they left me alone/flew over me without incident.

[cjs123]

That was the weirdest thing. At first when I felt something brush past me I figured it was some other bug, then I felt it hit my hair, my sleeve, and it kept coming back. ANGRY-sounding buzz which I didn't hear at first. Took me a minute to realize I was encountering a bee in the middle of the night.

Just googled images of 'wild honey bee' and 'honey bee' and to the best of my recollection that is what it looked like, but once it was dead I didn't study it very closely and it didn't stop moving when it was alive.

I have to read up more on this whole situation. Someone I know who lives in south Scottsdale said they were worried about Africanized bees there, and I hadn't given it a thought.