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That weather over Reno way sounds a bit like the monsoon weather an the Jabal Samhan at the back of Salalah in Oman, lots of mist hanging around for weeks at a time. Makes the place nice and green afterwards.
 
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A friend said his favorite grass color is brown. That doesn't happen often in south Louisiana. My neighbor cuts his grass twice a week. Mine is too wet, the mower gets stuck.
 
Vic Balshaw said:
That weather over Reno way sounds a bit like the monsoon weather an the Jabal Samhan at the back of Salalah in Oman, lots of mist hanging around for weeks at a time. Makes the place nice and green afterwards.
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The weather on the west coast of the U.S. is a weird creature.

Tropical moisture from the Carribean can get trapped between the Rockies and Sierra Nevada mountains and unloads in Arizona, Nevada and so on.
If a storm off the coast of California pushes back the typical high pressure, the Pacific moisture comes inland and we end up with monsoon-like weather, especially if the high pressure system in the northern desert areas (like Nevada, Utah, etc.) stalls the weather. It just unloads like a mule pissing on a flat rock.

The downside to this monsoon type weather, is that here in Northern California, much of the heavier moisture-laden clouds have evaporated and we're left with excessive dry lightning.

Which in this most recent case, has started quite a few large fires in the area
 
We're having our first decent rain in weeks. Some thunder, and it may intensify later, but right now it's gentle and has dropped the temp to the mid-80s.

We really need five or six weeks of this to start recovering from our four-year drought. We're forecasted the next week for six days with precip %s between 30 and 70%.
 
-Well, the temperature isn't bad. We had two nights of thunder but, of course, no rain. Summer rains in the daytime often don't make it to the ground anyway.
-For the past two days our air quality index has been in the "Unhealthy" to "Very Unhealthy" range, topping at 297 at 1AM PST this morning, due to the fires in California.
-Downieville, CA, is currently at 444. Downieville is currently at 83 times the WHO annual air quality guideline value...
-We can't see our mountains in any direction due to the smoke/haze.
 
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