IT'S RAINING IN TUCSON!!! WOO-HOO!!!!!!!!!

[MiddleFingerMom]

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Gonna take a short break to go outside for a little dancin'!!!
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[nolabear]

1. Dear Lord...you and I live on different planets...

I've been waiting for a sunbreak since December. I have moss on my north side.

[MiddleFingerMom]

2. Wah-wah-wah. I think our last cloudy day was in 2003...NO... 2005.

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Moss sounds moist and cool.
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Although I wear my baseball cap 24/7, I keep forgetting that I need to refresh
my SPF-250 even when I'm INSIDE the house.
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[Crystal Clarity]

3. Ah, what I would I give for some Tucson weather right now!!!

But as they say here in Maine, "if you can't stand her wintah's, you don't deserve her summahs"

18°F ·
Wind: 6 mph W
Humidity: 30%
Intellicast Today

14° / -11° Tue

19° / 1° Wed

14° / 3° Thu

21° / 0° Fri

This actually isn't too bad though. I've seen much worse at this time in previous years.

Have fun dancing in that rain MFM! :hi:

[MiddleFingerMom]

4. I did... but it was EXTREMELY short-lived.

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What the rest of the country would call a little spritz, but what
WE may still be talking about in 2025 as "The Great Winter 2011
Torrential Freakin' Downpour".
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We LOVES our rain here.
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[Crystal Clarity]

6. Dumb Q, but too lazy to google...

My ex-husband grew up in Yuma and now lives in Tucson. He always used to talk about a 'rainy season' down there...

Somehow, I can't picture Monsoons :rofl:

.... but IS there a period of time (like days or weeks) when you get a lot of rain (relatively speaking) and if so, is it generally in the winter or some other time of year?

[MiddleFingerMom]

8. Not dumb. My first several years visiting here were...

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...all around the end-of-the-year holidays, so I couldn't IMAGINE a monsoon
here either.
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From the Pima Community College website http://wc.pima.edu/Bfiero/tucsonecology/climate/seasons.htm
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MONSOON SUMMER: June - September. Beginning in 2008, the monsoon period in Tucson offically
extends from June 15 - September 30. Before 2008, the monsoon period began officially after 3
consecutive days with daily mean surface dew points of 55 degrees F or greater (representing
an influx of moisture into our area). The increase in dew point occurs when the prevailing winds
shift from westerly to southeasterly, bringing more moisture in from the Gulf of California (mostly)
and Gulf of Mexico. Days often begin clear and very warm, but as the heat of the day builds,
huge clouds build and tower above (see Why it Rains), cooling the temperatures somewhat
(but increasing relative humidity) and often dumping huge quantities of rain in a very short
time. This is the time of wind and dust, flashfloods and lightening.
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An incredible amount of rain falls in relatively short periods of time, usually in the afternoons --
the humidity can be beastly combine with our (normally dry and comfortable) heat.
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Trouble is, if we don't get enough rain at other times of the year, the rain we DO get ends up
mostly as run-off due to our not-very-receptive desert "ground".
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The lightning storms (and I'm a frustrated storm-chaser) are the most incredible light-shows
I've seen ANYWHERE else in the world.
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[Crystal Clarity]

9. Wow. I had no idea

that Arizona had monsoons. :dunce: I've always pictured them to be in places like India or Thailand. :shrug:

Sounds like an amazing sight to see. :-)

[whistler162]

5. Good for you but I hear it never rains in Southern California

so you are luckier than they are.

[MiddleFingerMom]

7. I was going to deny that from experience, but then I remembered the details.

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The only time I've spent time on the coast in California was in a BEAUTIFUL
home in Palos Verdes Estates (just south of L.A.) in the hills overlooking the
ocean with a view almost straight out from its back decks of Catalina Island.
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Having greeted the sun on NUMEROUS occasions rising over the Atlantic, I
was looking forward to my first chance to wave goodnight to it as it sank
into the Pacific.
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Sky turned completely overcast hours before I arrived, and didn't clear up
ONE bit until just hours after I left three days later.
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But, you know... it never actually DID rain.
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