Today I was reading a fellow from Arizona who knows about the monsoon, especially in Arizona. He said officially it starts June 15th this year. I hope he is right, but he has already missed it by two days now. It has to do with dew points being 54 degrees and the air from the Pacific, moving eastbound, meets the moist air from the Gulf of Mexico, moving northwest bound. They do battle and then, about the time the clouds hit the mountains and start rising and cooling, the clouds start crying over who is losing, etc and starts the rainfall….Measuring from 2 to 6 inches every year and providing the deserts of Arizona and New Mexico with most of their annual moisture. I think maybe right now there is no moist air from the Gulf of Mexico. I think that happens when the hurricanes start coming into the Texas gulf coast and blowing on in toward New Mexico. Now the fellow from Arizona did not say that, I said that, but based on the last few years that seemed to me to be when it happens. It is a shame that bad weather one place makes good things  happen in another place. I know the monsoon is more complicated than my little recourse, but it does happen to some extent each year. And us folks here in New Mexico are glad it happens. We need it to happen soon this year. You have read of all the forest fires and grass fires we have been having here in both Arizona and New Mexico. We are tender box dry and we hope the monsoon arrives very soon. Fireworks at the July 4th celebrations are a scary thing for this year. Backyard celebrations need to exercise extreme caution this year.