you would think it is June...Lightning-caused fire burning 40 acres near I-10, Dragoon

[Kali]

https://kvoa.com/news/local-news/2019/08/21/lightning-caused-fire-burning-40-acres-near-i-10-dragoon

it is more like 200 acres now. I have some pix but I have to go on my desktop and it is rest-the-knee hour at the moment.

[lapfog_1]

1. generally speaking

the southern Arizona monsoon arrives right around (if not on) the 4th of July in Benson.

No monsoon this year?

[Kali]

3. we had some rain in July but August has been a bust so far

and the heat of the last two weeks has been brutal.

[lapfog_1]

5. June has returned...

generally speaking August sees increased humidity, spotty thunderstorms that drench and cool the desert, followed the next morning by heating the desert evaporating the last rainfall, and it repeats again. No all of the desert gets rain every afternoon... but there is usually rain someplace in the San Pedro valley.

Occasionally a tropical storm will make its way from the Gulf of California and really drench the desert. Not every year, but occasionally.

Sounds like you all are stuck in the June weather pattern (very hot, dry, with dry lightning). I was there when the Rincons burned in the summer.

Hope things return to normal.

[Kali]

6. today was the first lightening in weeks and it may have rained some closer to the border

It is supposed to get going again this weekend - sure hope so!

[orangecrush]

2. Stay safe!

Fire on the mountain!

[Kali]

4. we're good, two miles away

and pretty grazed off around the house

[orangecrush]

7. ...

[Kali]

8. seems to be mostly out this morning, will drive by and look a little later (pix from yesterday)

smoke hit the house for about an hour or so around 10 last night



if you look right in the center you can see just a snip of rainbow




about an hour later, better light




zoomed a bit for flames




from the other side




unfortunately there is (was?) a boundary fence that runs up that steep draw to the peak and I am pretty sure part of it had wood posts still, probably built in the 30s or 40s originally. some poor son of mine will have to get up there and check then do any repairs.

[orangecrush]

9. BEAUTIFUL!

Thanks, Kali!

[Ptah]

10. This time of year I get adobe fever, like cabin fever only hot.