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Photo - Arizona Monsoon
What a real Arizona Monsoon looks like...they can be extremely violent and dump a ton of water in a matter of minutes.
So much so that I had to back flush water out of my pool to avoid overflowing during the last two Monsoons in 4 days. My back yard (acre) flooded (4" - 5" deep) to the point where the water threatened to crawl into my patio and up to my house. Cooled the Valley off quite a bit though, so all went well...this time. . ~~~~~~`` . 
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Thanks Don - Great photo.....Head for high ground......
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Cool photo. Weather like that is so powerful.
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We could use that rain up here in Seattle.
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I have relatives living in AZ and they have told me about these squalls , but the pic is worth a thousand words.
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Wow. An atomic rainstorm!
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It's interesting how a lot of the valley doesn't have storm drains or even good drainage ditches. Up on Pima Rd north of pinnicle peak they basically just paved on the ground without culverts or anything. We have very good storm drains here in Tempe but being a 3-wood from the salt river if it floods it's really going to flood.
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One thing I like about living in Gilbert, plenty of drainage around here. Even in the worst of the worst, it's all passible, and my house stays dry!
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Wow...Dramatic photo. Beautiful, thanks.
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Looking east from Mesa, Az towards The Superstition Mountains... 
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I was driving toward this monster. Fortunately it was a little farther away than it seemed and I got home without so much as a drop. Shortly afterwards, the skies opened up.
Here's a time lapse video of the same storm from a different angle.
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This is my first summer actually staying in Az. And I have been pet sitting at my Sisters place high on a hillside overlooking Chino Valley. This is a large valley, about 15/20 miles wide, from my Sis'S place we can see up and down the valley also, probably about 50 miles in view. What I'm trying to convey is that this is some of that BIG SKY COUNTRY. So famous in the southwest.
It has been fastenating watching these monsoon weather cells in action in all of this space. Often as the afternoon heat builds these concentrated cells of weather will form and intensify into lightening filled, rain dumping, wind generating monsters. Sometimes two or three of these cells are in sight at a time. Short lived, slow moving, they don't last long 45 min more or less but man they are dramatic. As I left the place yesterday heading about five miles down to where my motorhome is parked it was dry at the Sis'S place with rumbling clouds in the area. A mile later it was dumping rain. A couple of miles later it thinned. At my place it was dry. Very dynamic weather! I'm loving it. Great pic Don, really conveys the power and magisty of this weather. Cheers Richard |
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What is rain?
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Really cool photo. I was caught in one of those in Tucson years ago, seriously impressive storms.
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Looks like nature is angry with that town.
Great photo.
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They ended up moving to Fort Myers, Florida. The get to see lots of thunderstorms now.
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