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It's officially summer. We've had temperatures above 110 F, and last night we had our first rain since mid April, a rousing thunderstorm in the middle of the night. It's all perfectly normal. It's monsoon season, hotter than blazes and welcome thunderstorms that come in from all points of the compass.
I got up and checked the radar loop on the net last night after the lightning passed. The storm was a fairly typical first monsoon storm coming from the southeast headed toward the northwest. The whole system is actually a huge patch of clear weather fringed with clouds and storms from here circling up into Utah and all the way to Nebraska (waving to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ann1962). The local storms here are small and the Phoenix area is large. So not everyone 'in town' got rain last night. Hope you got some, soulfulspike80!
This year we have an extra little problem. A minor disaster at a power station means we'll probably be having short rolling blackouts during peak hours for the rest of the summer. We've been asked to conserve, but asking the average Joe to conserve (translation have his air conditioning set several degrees higher in the hottest part of the day) for months probably isn't realistic. Either the larger businesses will do most of it or the blackouts will certainly come. The power companies are promising they'll be short, but who knows at this point.
I got up and checked the radar loop on the net last night after the lightning passed. The storm was a fairly typical first monsoon storm coming from the southeast headed toward the northwest. The whole system is actually a huge patch of clear weather fringed with clouds and storms from here circling up into Utah and all the way to Nebraska (waving to
ann1962). The local storms here are small and the Phoenix area is large. So not everyone 'in town' got rain last night. Hope you got some, soulfulspike80!This year we have an extra little problem. A minor disaster at a power station means we'll probably be having short rolling blackouts during peak hours for the rest of the summer. We've been asked to conserve, but asking the average Joe to conserve (translation have his air conditioning set several degrees higher in the hottest part of the day) for months probably isn't realistic. Either the larger businesses will do most of it or the blackouts will certainly come. The power companies are promising they'll be short, but who knows at this point.
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Thanks, CW. Yes, I was there for her birthday the end of March. My mom's flying up there tomorrow for a few days. It sounds like she's doing a little better - she's a tough lady! At this point I just feel fortunate that we've had her with us for the past year or so, since last year we almost lost her when she had pneumonia, CHF, and 3 strokes while she was in the hospital. Since then she's been able to meet her new great-granddaughter and see her great-grandson again. So every day is a blessing.
Just got back from the Dbacks game. Can things get any more depressing? (Don't answer that!) I guess we'll find out in the next few days if they're trading RJ and/or Finley. I will be extremely bummed if they trade either one.