"And the Thunder Rolls!"

[azsnowman]

"WOW!" I was RATTLED out of bed at 0501 with a clap of thunder SO loud that knocked pictures off the walls :o Check out your radar and you'll see the cell that's over us. We had a brief HEAVY downpour that lasted 1.5 minutes, received .05" :o BUT.........there was LOTS and LOTS of CG strokes, you know what THAT means, "FIRE!" :o Needless to say, we're gonna keep an eye to the horizon and a nose to the wind for ANY SIGNS of smoke

Dennis

[MonsoonDude]

lol yeah looks like on lightningstorm .com, that i sthe only thnuderstorm in Arizona at the moment..must be excting, a true signature that the monsoon is around the corner!

Kev

[MonsoonDude]

another thing about it, i just looked at your radar..not much in the form of rain, so if there is alot of lightning like you have stated, that means its a high based dry thunderstorm, and yes fires are a danger in those.

Kev

[azsnowman]

Nope, other than that brief shower, that was it. I can see lightning off in the distance, it appears to be around the Az. New Mexico border, this ain't good folks, as I stated, it's drier this year than last and we're about 3 weeks away from the anniversary of the Rodeo Chediski Fire.

Dennis

[Stephanie]

I guess after that, you were up for the day!! :o

I certainly hope that if you're going to get those storms that some rain comes with them.

[azsnowman]

Yet ANOTHER Tboomer around 1500 hrs, I was laying down trying to take a NAP then "POW!" another .10", .15" not too shaby for the last week in May!

Dennis

[Aslkahuna]

passing through the westerly flow north of us that's interacting with the weak moisture influx that occurred earlier in the week while at the same time scouring it out which is not quite the same as a pre-monsoonal boomer type pattern which we may see next week as the ridge rebounds.
Looking further down the line, the model runs put us in dry SW flow for the first week in June which is fairly normal for that time of year.

Steve