We've been away for a quick trip to the Santa Rita Abbey (~5 northwest of Sonoita, Arizona) and have just returned.
Yesterday's morning storms were all of the day's activity, since the whole area around Tucson went into subsidence-mode for the afternoon (so we added all of 0.03" to the wimpy summer total here at the house). There was one very isolated storm that hit the Abbey with 2/3 inch of rain before we arrived - left the roads muddy, which is an unusual experience.
There was a spectacular, burning-red sunset down there last evening (12 July 2013).
Towers build early in that region and these were over the Santa Ritas at around 11:30 am MST this morning. Below is long-range shot of a storm obscuring about half of the Huachuca Mountains off to the southeast of the Abbey. Updrafts were quite weak across that whole area today with towers building slowly, raining briefly, and crashing quickly. All afternoon I saw only one lightning strike (with the storm shown below) and never heard any thunder.
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