Tucson Monsoon Season Starts Today June 15, 2009
When is Tucson Monsoons Season? This question pops up a lot. The answer got a lot easier to answer last years. A season is a season, is a season.
Tucson Rain Water Harvesting
The Tucson Monsoon season is just 10 days away (now that we have an official start date of June 15, 2008). This yearly period in nature brings about a renewed interest in Rain Water Harvesting.
Tucson Monsoon Season to start June 15 2008
The National Weather Service has decided to change the way the start and end of monsoon season in Tucson will be determined. Till this year it has been by number of days in a row with a certain Dew point. This year they are going to set June 15, 2008 as the start date and September 30, 2008 as the end date.
Tucson Monsoon Season Is Over For 2007
One of the sure signs the Tucson Monsoon Season is over is the arrival of the fall winds and the decreased humidity. The other subtle sign is when the cow skulls smile and the dinner bells lift there lids in celebration of the arrival of fall. Just look at him; doesn’t he look [...]
Tucson Monsoon Season Winding Down
The Monsoon Season in Tucson is winding down for this year, but, it isn’t over yet.
There are several ways of know the monsoon is here in Tucson. Things start to sweat. Most people that haven’t lived here don’t think much about sweat on ice tea, but around here it doesn’t happen most [...]
Tucson Monsoon in the Morning
I’m at a meeting this morning in downtown Tucson. Getting here was a challenge this morning. Driving with one hand, dodging around heavy water while looking through a camera and snapping pictures of on coming traffic about to bury my windshield in water.
An early morning rain can be especially interesting because of rush [...]
Tucson Ocotillo Cactus
Ocotillo Cactus come alive during the Tucson Monsoon season. They can look like dried sticks long dead, but give them a good rain storm or two and within five days they can push out a whole new crop of beautiful green leaves.
It really is one of the most amazing transformations to see the desert [...]
Tucson Photographers Get The Digital Photography Book
Tucson’s monsoon season produces some of the best opportunities for Tucsonans to take dramatic weather and sunset pictures. I ran across a book a couple of weeks ago and I really want to recommend it to anyone that wants to take better digital photographs.
I’ve been taking photos since I was 5 years old. My [...]
