Rainy Time in Tucson
February 8, 2010
Post Tags: blue-palo-verde , spring wildflowers , wet tucson
The Green one is for Sunday
You would think the monsoon of last summer finally arrived in Tucson. It was a long hot dry summer last year. Not once during the Monsoon season did we see any roads around us closed. The fall wasn’t much better. But January was the 8th wettest on record. February is turning out to be very wet.
It isn’t hard to know how many days of rain there have been in a week. All you have to do is see how many newspaper bags are in the recycle bin.
As you can see we had one Sunday that was very wet. (Yesterday was another but I had already taken this picture).
One of my better images don't you think
Yesterday was supposed to be a slight chance of rain. It was more like a slight chance of flooding. Our entire back yard was underwater and stayed that way till late afternoon.
The rest of this week is supposed to be wet, wet, followed by more wet.
But here’s the good thing. We aren’t complaining about it. Saturday was a beautiful day here. I could have worn shorts (could have, but didn’t). Much of the rest of the country was still being buried or digging out of a massive blizzard and we had a bright sunny day.
All this rain is going to lead to a beautiful spring in the desert. The Arizona Daily Star even made it front page news last week one day so we know it’s going to happen, Right?
The annuals are iffy. The rains came so late there is no way of knowing if they will germinate or not. But the perennials will soak up this moisture and paint our desert with color in 6 to 8 weeks.
Blue Palo verde bloom Yellow. Go figure
