We were driving back recently from a sunny visit to Saguaro National Park as the sky clouded over. We thought we heard thunder in the distance and hoped we could get home before the storm. We didn’t. The rain wasn’t so much falling as it was being slammed against our car by big gusts of wind.
While it may not be the first image that comes to mind when you think of the desert, that’s the Arizona monsoon season, when Tucson receives around half its annual rainfall.
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