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It has been so nice weather wise that we got spoiled.

The weather word would be clear.

But yesterday there was a quick adjustment as we were hit with a big haboob or sandstorm which pretty much covered the entire valley. It was not the black hard sand but the finer silica so not as gritty and mean but still not very nice.

It looks like fog.

Then today, right now, there are showers and thunder from a monsoon that has drifted in.

The sand storm is the result in a "whoosh" of air that comes down in a column and scatters the desert floor. The monsoon is the effect of a swirl of weather out over the either the Gulf of Mexico or the lower Pacific which brings the moist air up and over the mountains. It has to be strong to do that. Usually we are in the rain shadow and do not get much from this kind of pattern.

It will not end the drought. But it is possible that I will not have to water today or tomorrow. A welcome respite.

This is the haboob as seen in Phoenix as it arrived at the city.

Labels: haboob, monsoon, waather