The end of Monsoon

Every year about this time in Southeastern Arizona we prepare for a farewell. The climate patterns that bring us regular monsoon rains begins to fall apart and it becomes hot and dry once more here in the Arizona deserts. We have been blessed this year to have a very wet monsoon and the hills and valleys are green. The multitude of greens are a feast for the eye, from the deep glossy green of the Emery oaks to the yellow blush of buffalo grass along the roadways. It is green in Arizona this year.
But although we are still blessed with rain the cusp of rainy season has passed. The leaves of the ocotillo are beginning to yellow and the cottonwoods have lost that glossy look. Fall is on its way. We may have to pass though a blast furnace for a few weeks first but it's downhill from here.
We have gotten some unhoped for moisture from a tropical storm know as Julio and based on the predictions Julio's moisture will keep us cool and wet through the Labor Day weekend.





All this good news aside these weather patterns make for incredible skyscapes.