Environment

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.

The last day of June brought us the first thunderstorms of the monsoon season. The forecast is for more chance of thunderstorms over the next couple of days, although the probabilities are down in the ten or twenty percent range. We had no precipitation here today, but the humidity popped up a bunch and we can hear thunder in the distance. We need the rain, so let it come.