7.03.2009

"Monsoon" Clouds

It tickles me when people use the term "monsoon" season to describe the weather in Sierra Vista from June until September. Are you kidding me? The rain is so predictable--at approximately 6:00 every evening, it will rain for up to an hour, and then, as expected, it will stop.


Personally, I will stick with the term "rainy" season until I see reason to call it otherwise. Unless you have lived on a little island in the middle of the Pacific or on the coast line of the Atlantic or Indian Ocean (or any ocean for that matter), and have lived through a real monsoon season (hurricanes and/or typhoons included), I don't think you should be using that word lightly!


Below are some pictures from our neighborhood right before a rainstorm. The middle picture shows a rain cloud running vertically in the center of the photograph.

3 comments:

Living in oblivion said...

i loved that time of year when we were stationed at Ft Huachuca!

Sassyfrass said...

Can't wait to get back to that!

Cook Family said...

Okay, well at least the Arizonan's have a hope of the rain coming...I think it makes us feel better to know a few drops will be heading in to give the dry land a drink :). Oki's monsoon season is a little more dramatic, did you hear about the typhoon that almost hit us...but changed course :( ?