It's only June. it's hot as hell already

hey ya'll. Greating from the valley of the sun. If you like it around 106 - 110 time to come on out and visit. Just remember it's a dry heat. Unlike everyone back in Rhode Island and Connecticut where we hear you need a row boat to get to Dunkin Donuts and use the sail thru. Well we got some rain here Wednesday afternoon. I guess from the emails I have received if you watched some of the news shows you saw we had a good dust storm here. Not that it was a huge one but it was early in the season for that kind of storm. Usually the "monsoons" as they call them here are not till July. For me the fun was driving in it. I had gone to Tucson Tuesday to do some work down there. right after lunch you could see the sky getting really black to the southwest. Knowing that our storms in Phoenix usually come out of the Tucson area and track right up I-10 I knew It would be prudent for me to get the hell out of there soon. Well by the time I left and got to I-10 the rain and wind were just hitting the area. And wind means around 50 MPH. I drove in rain and wind for the next 90 minutes doing about 15 - 25 MPH in flooded roadways and watching the water cover everything on both sides of the highway. I finally our ran the rain and went into a dark but basically dry area but could see the swirling dirt and dust ahead of me. The wall of dust was the next thing to conquor to get home free. Luckly where I was it wasn't that bad YET !! I was just south of Casa Grande, I would call CG the home or ground zero of the dust storms. I think they really get fueled there with all the miles and miles of desert and dirt and then just push all that crap up to Phoenix. North of CG the highway is frequently the location of big pileups of wrecked cars that drive into the dust storms.
Well I made it thru safe and sound. When i got just north of the storm i stopped to take photos of a stopped train with the wall of dust behind the locomotives. and one looking the other way showing the dust as it was pushing north. (the top 4 photos below) As fast as i could take those 4 photos I was back in the dust storm again. So off and running i was again to get out of the storm. Oh, did i mention I was driving the new truck I had bought last week? I wasn't being to heroic since I was driving a truck with about 700 miles on it and really did want to have it around a little longer. Well I finally got to where i exited I -10 and headed west toward the pass thru the mountain to get home here. All the time watching the storm to my left approaching. As i walked into the house and out the back door to bring things that could blow around into the house it hit where we live. We got plenty of dust but no rain on Tuesday.
Wednesday afternoon here we had an encore performance by mother nature and another dust storm and this time considerable amounts of rain too. the rest of the photos were taken on Wednesday from the back door looking out over the pool and some from the deck upstairs looking out toward the golf course behind the house. So here's a few photos of weather in action here in AZ. But i got to admit I still love it here !! the Pool is around 90 degrees and there's usually plenty of sunshine.