Wednesday, July 01, 2009

Monsoon Season

Monsoon season is here. We experienced a really wild monsoon season our first summer here. Rain pouring down in sheets of water, flooding the greenbelt across from our house, crazy lightening, winds, etc. But the last 2 summers its been pretty mild.

Some of the signs that a monsoon is approaching is the big dark cloud that looks very menacing. Also, the temperature goes from very hot and dry to muggy, cooler and heavy air. Here are some pics of a huge dark cloud coming in, it brought some wind but we didnt' get any rain. Lots of awesome lightening though. The lightening is like nothing we had ever seen before, thousands of lightening strikes in the sky, quick and spread out..its quite the light show.

It's quite the microclimate down here during the summer. The monsoon season starts in June and goes through August. It's the only time of the year we actually go through short bouts of no sunshine.

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