{"id":665,"date":"2006-11-01T09:57:40","date_gmt":"2006-11-01T16:57:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/2006\/11\/01\/evil-looking-southern-arizona-skies\/"},"modified":"2006-11-02T10:59:32","modified_gmt":"2006-11-02T17:59:32","slug":"evil-looking-southern-arizona-skies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/2006\/11\/01\/evil-looking-southern-arizona-skies\/","title":{"rendered":"Evil-looking Southern Arizona Skies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My favorite time of the year here in southern Arizona is the monsoon season, which runs from early July to sometime in September. The monsoon rains bring the desert back to life after the baking heat of June, and many of our native wildflowers bloom at this time.<\/p>\n<p>Our Arizona monsoons are characterized by a pronounced shift in the weather pattern bringing in subtropical moisture from the south, which when combined with our daily desert heating and uplift from the mountains, brings frequent, often violent thunderstorms. These thunderstorms can develop surprisingly fast and often have frequent lightning, high winds, and brief, heavy downpours, but luckily tornados are very rare here.<\/p>\n<p>The often unstable weather here in southern Arizona at this time of year produces ever-changing, often wonderfully dramatic skies, such as these evil-looking skies which were photographed before, during, or after a thunderstorm.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/images\/firefly\/2006\/November\/Arizona-sky-2.jpg\" alt=\"Sunset thunderstorm over Tucson, Arizona\" title=\"Sunset thunderstorm over Tucson, Arizona\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\" class=\"post-photo\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Tattered and dying sunset thunderstorm over Tucson.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/images\/firefly\/2006\/November\/Arizona-sky-1.jpg\" alt=\"Sunset thunderstorms over Arizona's Sierrita Mountains\" title=\"Sunset thunderstorms over Arizona's Sierrita Mountains\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\" class=\"post-photo\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Mix of growing and dying sunset thunderstorms over the Sierrita Mountains.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/images\/firefly\/2006\/November\/Arizona-sky-4.jpg\" alt=\"Cloud iridescence above a thunderstorm in Tucson, Arizona\" title=\"Cloud iridescence above a thunderstorm in Tucson, Arizona\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\" class=\"post-photo\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/2006\/08\/10\/iridescent-clouds\/\">Cloud iridescence<\/a> above a developing afternoon thunderstorm in Tucson.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/images\/firefly\/2006\/November\/Arizona-sky-3.jpg\" alt=\"Sheet lightning in a Tucson, Arizona evening thunderstorm\" title=\"Sheet lightning in a Tucson, Arizona evening thunderstorm\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\" class=\"post-photo\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Lightning illuminating an approaching wall of rain during a nighttime thunderstorm in Tucson (lightning like this without a visible bolt of light is called sheet lightning).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My favorite time of the year here in southern Arizona is the monsoon season, which runs from early July to sometime in September. The monsoon rains bring the desert back to life after the baking heat of June, and many of our native wildflowers bloom at this time. Our Arizona monsoons are characterized by a&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/2006\/11\/01\/evil-looking-southern-arizona-skies\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More &rarr; <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arizona-weather-sky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}