It rains in the desert too....sometimes...

The rain gods have been a little kind to the desert south west recently. We've been getting sprinkles of rain every so often. And they have provided for some interesting scenery locally - what with excellent visuals of lightning strikes on the surrounding mountains, the flashes of driving rain against the backdrop of a gray sky, winds howling through trees making them look like they were stooping with age...

Other than helping the ground water level replenish by just a tad over an inch, what this rain has done has been amazing for the weather. Its freezing..thats what is amazing.
Its early December, which usually means mild to chilly weather in this part of the country. Instead, what we've had is freezing weather that began in the last days of November.

Without much more ado though, here are some views of Tempe under gray skies.


The clouds descended on Tempe this past weekend..they stooped so low, the 300 ft "A" Mountain top disappeared. It was cold and freezing with a driving rain. The lights of Sun Devil Stadium seemed to just show up the moisture hanging in the thick air...



Finally the rain let up. But the clouds were still lying low. A tad better than the previous pic...


View looking east along the "University Drive"..usually the Superstition Mountains are visible in the backdrop...but the visibility in this is hardly over a few hundred yards.....