Rainy season doesn't traditionally start until June, but we've had a taste of it twice in the last week or so. On both occasions there was plentiful thunder and lightning - and even a bit of hail the first time - but not a great deal of water fell from the heavens.
Some of the lightning looked rather theatrical - sharp and white - followed immediately by rolling peals of thunder, so I suppose that was because we're at a pretty high altitude here and it wasn't far away. It really did look like someone had a really bright light just down the street which they were flashing in our direction. I love thunder and lightning! We even got up and turned off the computers in case there were resulting power situations.
However, after nearly 90 minutes of rain, the quasi-official measurement was a total of 0.22 inches for the last two storms combined. Quasi-official because we don't have a local airport with weather instruments; the results are published on line by amateur weather stations run by local citizens who publish via the weatherunderground web site.
And since there are no unofficial weather stations in our part of town, one doesn't really know what the local, local measurement would have been. The two stations are on the south side of town (in the area to which we are moving) and out in the campo to the north of town. Rain tends to be spotty here in SMA - perhaps because of our proximity to the clouds? Or just because it can?
Either way, everyone seems happy and I won't need to go water our lawns at the new house today! Hope they got the rooftop terrace floor sealed yesterday....
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