weather

The last few days the sky has gotten really dark, thunder has been rolling, and the humidity has been so thick that we're positive it's going to rain. It doesn't. But this afternoon the boys were out playing handball in the front yard after school and suddenly Carter busts in the front door yelling, "Mom! You gotta see this!"

I go out front to see the sky has turned completely dark -- the sky is so black that our security lights have been tricked into thinking it's nighttime, but the darkness is from the dirt falling from the sky. The kids are running around screaming, "It's snowing! It's snowing!"

I grabbed my camera and shot this really quickly. The camera lens lightened up the sky quite a bit, but you can still see how much dirt is in the air when I focus on the security light. It really was raining dirt. It was crazy and gritty.



About 10 minutes later the sky started lightening up again because it started raining and the water washed all the dirt out of the air. It didn't rain much and it didn't last long, but to feel actual water fall from the sky was a novelty. We went back outside and stood under the sparse drops like we do every time it rains in the desert.

We're planning to go camping tomorrow unless it's raining up on the mountain. Normally that wouldn't be likely, but while we've been teased with rain here, it's been pouring up there so we'll have to see what the weather is like in the morning.