That said, this has been one wet month of May. It started raining yesterday and has been intermittently doing it right up until about mid-afternoon today. Then the clouds moved off (mostly) and the sun came out just in time for sunset.
Whatever blew through also blew in some cooler temperatures. Normally daily highs in mid-May are in the upper 70's. Today, the high was forecast to be in the low to mid 60's and I'm not sure it got up that high. I had to turn on the heat this morning. Not very high, but enough to take the edge off.
The weirdest part has been the snow in the Sandias. I tried to take a photo around noon, but the clouds had rolled in and looked to be dropping another light layer.
All this while the vegetation around town is still doing the spring thing. Notice the green in the lower fifth of the above photo. Or this lovely bush, I think it's called Spanish Broom.
Later the clouds pulled back a bit. You can see small areas of snow at the top of the mountains and just below the clouds, if you squint a bit.
Tomorrow it's supposed to start warming up a bit. And we might get more rain later in the week.
Either 1939 or 1941 are the wettest Mays on record. If we keep going the way we have been, we might just beat the record. Considering how recently the state was listed as being in a drought, any and all rain is welcome.
Papillon
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