Thunderstorms woke us up in the wee hours of the morning and rolled through with hard rain. The patio cushions got soaked -- I did not get out of bed quick enough to bring them in. The kitchen flooded, not bad but a puddle spread out to the rug under the sink, and with tiny bits of mulch washed in.
The total was three quarters of an inch of rain. It's so rare to see anything over a quarter inch in that rain gauge from any one rain event and this year truly measurable rain has been frequent.
In eight years I've never seen a monsoon season like this one. We're now at almost 12 inches since the beginning of May.
Technically monsoon runs from fourth of July to the end of September, but we've been getting so much rain for almost 6 months now.
More is forecast.