Another Look at the Rain
The short burst that soaked me yesterday was followed by a short clearance and then a longer and heavier rainfall. Lisa recorded it from underneath the shelter that covers the travel trailer.
As is the way of desert living, it felt like we got about 10% of our annual precipitation in about ten minutes. It did cool things off, and it did create a bunch of standing water, but most of it is now gone, leaving higher-than-usual humidity in its wake and returning heat into the mid-30s C.
Unfortunately, the person who "fixed" the gutters along the upper roof didn't do it right. He left a gap between the two pieces of gutter (so rain drips through the gap) and didn't cover both ends of the roof line (so rain drips there instead of running through the down-spout and into the dry well I dug for this purpose). We need to fix it eventually, but we don't think it will happen this summer because of our planned travel. It's not exactly dangerous, but it is a nuisance.
If I understood this correctly from the radio news, this storm was the combination of a low pressure system that came down from the north mixing it up with the last of the water from tropical storm Alberto, which apparently came though the Gulf of Mexico, crossed Mexico into the Pacific, then formed back up again, albeit not back up to tropical-storm strength.
Click to viewAs is the way of desert living, it felt like we got about 10% of our annual precipitation in about ten minutes. It did cool things off, and it did create a bunch of standing water, but most of it is now gone, leaving higher-than-usual humidity in its wake and returning heat into the mid-30s C.
Unfortunately, the person who "fixed" the gutters along the upper roof didn't do it right. He left a gap between the two pieces of gutter (so rain drips through the gap) and didn't cover both ends of the roof line (so rain drips there instead of running through the down-spout and into the dry well I dug for this purpose). We need to fix it eventually, but we don't think it will happen this summer because of our planned travel. It's not exactly dangerous, but it is a nuisance.
If I understood this correctly from the radio news, this storm was the combination of a low pressure system that came down from the north mixing it up with the last of the water from tropical storm Alberto, which apparently came though the Gulf of Mexico, crossed Mexico into the Pacific, then formed back up again, albeit not back up to tropical-storm strength.