Yes, Phoenix’s record streak of 143 days without rain was broken today. The previous record was only in the 105 range. This has been a strange year – very little snow (and no skiing at all) in the high country, fire restrictions already starting to be put into place, etc. The early part of 2005 was just the opposite.
Weather was a big topic back on the farm in my youthful days, which is understandable given the economic impact. (It’s still a common conversation topic even here in Phoenix where the weather forecasters have the easiest job around, I guess because weather is the ultimate common conversation topic.) Anyway, a guy named Pete Kirsch drove truck for us in the corn-shelling business. He specialized in unusual responses to standardized questions (among other witticisms). When asked the standard question, “Do you think it’s going to rain?”, he would say “It will be a long dry spell if it doesn’t.” Now I know what he meant.
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