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Monsoon Season in New Mexico

I am sitting on my balcony. It has been hot and dry for far too long. A few rainy days over the winter and spring, no snow in Albuquerque. But this evening is different. I came out because there was a good breeze, though it was blazing hot this afternoon. I sat on my laptop and looked for jobs and played Scrabble, just amusing myself. The breeze was blowing around the cotton that the cottonwood trees a few blocks from my balcony, along the Rio Grande, were swirling all around me, and it was as if I were living in a hot, dry snow globe. And then you feel just the slightest change, the humidity rises and the breeze turns cool. It isn't raining here, but you can see the outer bands of thunderheads building. I got an alert about severe storms to our south, not too far away, and I looked at the forecast and we have afternoon thunderstorms expected every day now. I have been watching closely for 10 years and almost every year monsoons have started July 1. I have heard that it is predict