The first sign of the approaching monsoon was distant thunder. Looking out our door to the north there wasn’t a hint of a storm but look south and the sky carried a heavy foreboding. It only took minutes for the dark clouds to open up and the falling rain to capture the light of the sun with this double rainbow, welcoming back the rains of summer. Another moment passed and the winds kicked up, whipping the trees about and forcing us to retreat from our perch due to the weaponized raindrops. With only a week before August starts and nary a cloud in the weather forecast, it was feeling like our notorious monsoon season was going to pass us by. The thunder was silenced prior to the rain so not a bolt of lightning was seen but we’ll keep up our hopes that a full sensorial pummeling is still on its way.

Update:

We went out for a walk shortly before the sun finished setting and were rewarded with spectacular skies to the west and these strangely illuminated clouds to the east. Turning a corner on the last leg of our walk we could see lightning off in the distance to the south. In the past two hours the temperature has dropped from 103 to a comfy though balmy 81 degrees.