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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