Wacky, Wild Weather

It's the desert.  Hot, dry and sunny.  Right?  Wrong!  Not this past weekend.

We had wind!

We had rain!

Ominous clouds

Saturday night was very windy.  We had little to no sleep.  Kind of funny, really -  first night we didn't hear road noise from the interstate.  No one was travelling it was so windy.  Late in the night rain arrived.  Lots of rain.  I did mention the desert right?  So much rain that some of the campground roads were flooded.

Oh and temperatures dropped from 80s to 50s.  Colder at night.  Sunday seemed a bit calmer until just before supper.  Then the winds picked up again with rain, lightning and thunder.  Today is much better, but we had a band of hail pass through.  I think the bad weather is pretty much over except for near freezing temperatures tonight.

At higher mountain elevations it snowed.  A lot.  Up to 3 feet of snow in some places.  About 140 miles of Interstates 40 and 17 were closed for awhile.  School was cancelled for today in some areas.

This part of the world has been in a drought condition for over 10 years.  Any and all rain is welcome.