This morning, we were awakened to the sounds of booming thunderclaps and moderately heavy rainfall on the roof. Yesterday, The National Weather Service forecast for an eighty percent probability of thunderstorms with the usual flash flood warnings.
Damsel checked the Wickenburg P.D. Facebook site and saw that Sols Wash (a major feed into the Hassayampa River) had flooded Vulture Mine Road, about a mile from our little house. While walking the dogs, I checked for erosion and damage from the little wash that flows along the road in front of the house and found only minor indications of water flow.
In the past, we have seen heavy flooding of the little wash and water flowing rapidly enough to generate whitewater and rooster tails over submerged objects. It’s quite a sight when that happens and usually causes erosion along the front of our landscape.
The forecast is for more thunderstorms tonight and through Monday. We’re battened down here and expect to be safe. The red circle in the image above shows our approximate location.
We got pounded yesterday in Palm Desert, and we saw a storm drain do the strangest thing: it swallowed a lot of water, then a big air bubble would rise, push the water back out, and blow like a geyser when the air hit the mouth of the drain.
There was a lot of thunder high up, but we couldn’t see much lightning as it was in the clouds. But it was a real frog strangler!
Today, light rain all morning for us, too.
We all needed the rain. Interesting story about the storm drain – we’ve never seen anything like that.
We had light rain most of Sunday but nothing today. That stream of tropical air moved mostly your way.
This afternoon, we see lots of thunderclouds building up and expect to see a nocturnal light show this evening and perhaps some rain.
Love that monsoon season. 😀
Yeah, those storms are wonderful! The steady rain and the afternoon clouds kept the thunderstorms down today, but we should have a shot at them tomorrow 😀
And here it is tomorrow, and not a drop of rain, nor a thunderbolt to be seen.
Guess we have to wait ’til the next wave of tropical moisture to see lightning and hear thunder.