That used to happen here after their first summer of 110+ degrees. We're losing population and will lose more, you see the u-hauls pulling the car going back to Iowa or wherever all the time now. The problem is going to be all these empty buildings.
YEP! and working on more and shooting more footage.
Yes...I do all the music in my videos. Right now soundtracks mostly but have vocals I want to record. Need to go to California to do that and mix them though.
Just posted a storm video response to this. Check the date on the left. This was the last major storm we had here. Mind you, we certainly don't need the rain as much as you do in Arizona. We get plenty all year round lol.
I love watching big storms at night but here we dont get that many big ones. we get the rain but not the storm. But at least you got the rain which is what you said the land needed. at least its better then whats happening in LA just heard the news and fires.
One of the things I love about the desert is the storms, as long as I'm safe in one spot. Once I was trying to drive somewhere during a dust storm- big mistake. You guys have huge dust devils.
Driving in a dust storm is as bad as a blizzard. For us more us less experienced at it when we're caught in one is the fear of other drivers who've never experienced them and how they'll react.
Yeah I know how to drive in a blizzard, the LAST thing you do is pull over- someone will hit you for sure. Just keep on keeping on in a straight line (you hope) going slow.
exactly! if I can tell someone who knows how to drive in blizzards to just drive like that, it's all good...someone from coastal California, forget it, they freak!
Wicked dust devils are created by air filling in the void of a strong thermal release. Pilots look for them but you don't want to enter one below less than 200' over the visible dust.
The key is doing it over and over. I was fortunate that Caylyn (GreatGig1) had learned the hard way herself and taught me online and in person. It is harder than people think. I wasn't ready to post anything until recently.
Your video was excellent! We've both made a lot of progress! I just keep doing it to get better, it really is a lot of fun and a very useful skill also.
you totally ignore the chimes and everything rattling when a storm comes up because it's so rare and you focus on that. I did my best to get the chime audio reduced a little more but I'm not quite that good at editing yet!
If I'm somewhere that it rains normally the novelty wears off real fast. The idea of it raining more than two days in a row just seems real dreary! I wish that it rained more here like it used to before the urban heat island set in repelling storms.
Thanks for posting this. I live in Pittsburgh, PA (your Cards gave us a great run last year!), but I have been trying to talk my wife into moving to Arizona for about 10 years now. Probably wont happen, so the bi-yearly trips and the Internet are my "fix" - I so enjoy watching the monsoon videos that show up on youtube.
Thanks, I'm glad you enjoyed it. I have a lot of footage and you may like my vid "Urban Desert Rain 09/16/2007" on this channel at /watch?v=UM244J2OVnc
Thank you, Marc. Sometimes when it's real hot at night here and the walls are radiating the days heat while I try to fall asleep, I imagine being in a Scottish castle on the sea with raging storms all around me.
it's still gorgeous. I think you are very lucky living in Arizona. If I had a choice of states, I'd pick that one. Nice to see you have some palm trees. I love storms, especially hot ones. It's still in the 80's where I am in Canada, but that can change at the drop of a hat any day now = (
It is gorgeous and I realize how lucky I am to be here. Because we don't get a lot of them and when we do, they're pretty good ones, I love them also.
There are a few hidden, out of the way protected canyons where some ancient palm trees survive out in the desert. In Phoenix ours are imported from the California desert where they survived in larger numbers! (Palm Springs, Palm Desert, Palm etc)
I think we all do in Arizona...don't you love the way it washes all the dust off everything also? You realize how dirty everything was! LOL
You guys are lucky. In Phoenix we only have the summer monsoon rainy season and down there you get both the summer and winter rains. Desert is a lot lusher.
You got the rain when that storm passed through! We just got the wind, thunder, and lightening! I guess it saved up all the water to dump on you!! Could you send it back this way?? We could use the water! :-) When it rains in the desert, as you know, the skies open up, dump bucket loads and move on. Then the flash flooding starts! Don't you love the smell of the rain coming and the way things smell after a rain? :-) Another fine edit, grasshopper! LOL
You guys build up the wind and hot air (hahaha!) and as the wind sweeps it across the desert over the Colorado River and picking up moisture also from Mexico, which creates the storm. Usually the rain dries up before it hits the ground when it gets to Phoenix.
The urban heat island pushes the storms away and makes the city seem even hotter. I love the just-before-the rain-dirt smell! Then everything is so washed down and smells fresh and clean...the birds sing again! ;~}
oh yeah, I forgot to tell you that we had gotten the rain with that storm! I had done some clips and realized I had a video so I just started working on it and this is the one I was telling you I had dropped another vid to start.
Going without rain for long periods of time is something I can relate to. Somehow when storms (especially ones like this) pop up, it feels really jarring.
This is the big trade-off isn't it living where we do? We get great weather 70% of the time but little rain and when it gets hot, dang it gets hot!
You know what jars me about storms? If I have to drive...the roads are so slick with oil and water is gushing down on it with drivers who are not used to driving in the rain! Hardy weather people scoff at "wimpy rain drivers" but our rain is not just a shower either.
oh yeah! I lived through 13 hurricanes as a kid and a couple were very scary, even as secured down as we were. The wreckage afterwards was surreal with one of them.
We've had storms in the desert that ripped off part of my roof, they can get so violent.
ha! I did my best trying to reduce the wind chime noise and balance it out and improved it some. I'm still not able to split hairs on audio real well!
The Southeast UK has such a mild but rainy climate. Plenty of sunny days there though but when it gets on a rain jag for a few weeks...lol
There is nothing like watching a storm on the sea, great to look at, stirring up of nature's elements. We have a thing about looking over expanses of earth don't we? ;~}
The thing about England is, that every day can have different weather... the last few days we've had sun, rain, and wind and it keeps you guessing what tomorrow brings.
I guess where you are the storms are bigger and more magnifient, but after a long hot dry summer i bet you really need them
the comment about England's weather reminds me of what they say about Denver (and is true): "if you don't like the weather stay around a few hours and it will change." In the morning it can be a sunny beautiful 66 F degrees in winter and by afternoon have dark snow clouds and bitter wind at 30 F degrees!
It rains maybe 7-8 times a year normally here but the last 11 years have been a drought with rain only 4-5 times a year. So very refreshing indeed!
I want to try living in Arizona someday.
CaliforniaGuy88 6 days ago
@CaliforniaGuy88 It's a great place. Thanks for watching!
jrsnyderjr 6 days ago
Very nice..I love the summer monsoons my favorite time of year.
desertrose355 8 months ago
@desertrose355 Thanks, I appreciate your watching. This is one of my personal favorites of all the videos I've done.
jrsnyderjr 8 months ago
this was wonderfully peaceful!! ♥
SomebodyIusedtoknow 1 year ago
@SomebodyIusedtoknow There's something about storms in the desert that is very peaceful. ;~}
jrsnyderjr 1 year ago
AZ!!!!
Theicool 1 year ago
its pretty windy right now in Chandler, we issue a Tornado warning right now and expecting a 70 MPH gust.
sideslide23 2 years ago
I missed this one..(the video- Nota the storm) . I love the smell of rain when it first hits the hot pavement
I enjoyed :)
NotaTrollTravlin 2 years ago
We have something in common, we both live in one of the four driest states in the country.
flyhghgy 2 years ago
and they're getting drier too. we're also on or not far from the Continental Divide.
I'm editing a vlog on Arizona and our economic situation here you might like.
jrsnyderjr 2 years ago
Arizona's economic situation can't be worse than Montana's.
We're 49th. There's only one state worse off than us and I think it's Mississippi.
flyhghgy 2 years ago
oh I know it's bad up there. actually we're close, around 47th or 48th so...
jrsnyderjr 2 years ago
Look on the bright side we don't live in the state with the dubious distinction of being 50th.
flyhghgy 2 years ago
Also not being flooded with people any more...
jrsnyderjr 2 years ago
I'm lucky where I live. People move here and experience one winter of sub zero temps and by the next summer they leave.
flyhghgy 2 years ago
That used to happen here after their first summer of 110+ degrees. We're losing population and will lose more, you see the u-hauls pulling the car going back to Iowa or wherever all the time now. The problem is going to be all these empty buildings.
jrsnyderjr 2 years ago
Great video!
I love thunderstorms at night!
flyhghgy 2 years ago
We haven't had many storms this year - but we did have a couple of good strong ones.
DaveFromMooseJaw 2 years ago
We don't get a lot of storms and this year there have only been a few all year and they weren't real strong.
jrsnyderjr 2 years ago
WHOA! 4 videos in the past month?!
=) This is inspiring. Love the music!
It was great hearing your experience with storms in the dessert. And you did the music? Such a treat!!!
HeidiSaid 2 years ago
YEP! and working on more and shooting more footage.
Yes...I do all the music in my videos. Right now soundtracks mostly but have vocals I want to record. Need to go to California to do that and mix them though.
jrsnyderjr 2 years ago
Just posted a storm video response to this. Check the date on the left. This was the last major storm we had here. Mind you, we certainly don't need the rain as much as you do in Arizona. We get plenty all year round lol.
TamHickey67 2 years ago
Hey! I remember that storm vid, it was great! thanks for adding it as a response.
jrsnyderjr 2 years ago
We need more!
MotherReiver 2 years ago
"and the cried out for 'More'!"
thanks so much for watching MotherReiver.
jrsnyderjr 2 years ago
My pleasure, Snyder - it looks like I'm getting my wish and I hear the thunder roll :)
MotherReiver 2 years ago
I heard it too! went up outside and there was lightning!
jrsnyderjr 2 years ago
That raindance I did was payin' off!!!
MotherReiver 2 years ago
I love watching big storms at night but here we dont get that many big ones. we get the rain but not the storm. But at least you got the rain which is what you said the land needed. at least its better then whats happening in LA just heard the news and fires.
realnutty01 2 years ago
We get storms at night because during the day the heat dries the rain before it gets close to the ground. A day rain storm here is a gift!
All of Southern California and Arizona dread this time of year because of wildfires. The one in LA now is pretty bad, so far our haven't been as bad.
jrsnyderjr 2 years ago
One of the things I love about the desert is the storms, as long as I'm safe in one spot. Once I was trying to drive somewhere during a dust storm- big mistake. You guys have huge dust devils.
livelifealwaystoo 2 years ago
Driving in a dust storm is as bad as a blizzard. For us more us less experienced at it when we're caught in one is the fear of other drivers who've never experienced them and how they'll react.
Wicked dust devils all the time!
jrsnyderjr 2 years ago
Yeah I know how to drive in a blizzard, the LAST thing you do is pull over- someone will hit you for sure. Just keep on keeping on in a straight line (you hope) going slow.
livelifealwaystoo 2 years ago
exactly! if I can tell someone who knows how to drive in blizzards to just drive like that, it's all good...someone from coastal California, forget it, they freak!
jrsnyderjr 2 years ago
Wicked dust devils are created by air filling in the void of a strong thermal release. Pilots look for them but you don't want to enter one below less than 200' over the visible dust.
flyhghgy 2 years ago
WOW! Jr! Talk about good video and good editing!!!
I wasn't watching for a while, and BAM!, you do stuff like this now! You were always good but this is better!
livelifealwaystoo 2 years ago
Thanks! I told everyone I would be back and learn to edit...I just didn't know it was going to take so long!
jrsnyderjr 2 years ago
btw...I am totally impressed by your last video and I tweeted it out on Twitter.
jrsnyderjr 2 years ago
Ooo Thanks!
livelifealwaystoo 2 years ago
I took classes, but the only way I really learned it was using it over and over. The last several videos show my progress, shitty to better.
livelifealwaystoo 2 years ago
The key is doing it over and over. I was fortunate that Caylyn (GreatGig1) had learned the hard way herself and taught me online and in person. It is harder than people think. I wasn't ready to post anything until recently.
Your video was excellent! We've both made a lot of progress! I just keep doing it to get better, it really is a lot of fun and a very useful skill also.
jrsnyderjr 2 years ago
Send some warm weather north. Jacket at the lake this weekend. Stay above the water fill the resevuars.
sonpophits 2 years ago
Y'all have had a real cool summer while we continue a drought...
actually our reservoirs are doing pretty well but I wouldn't want to be Vegas or Tucson.
jrsnyderjr 2 years ago
So strange the thought of going that long without rain. Rain at night is so soothing though, a natural sleep aid.
Nice visuals JR and even them damn chimes added an element of ambience. lol ;)
Maiyanna 2 years ago
you totally ignore the chimes and everything rattling when a storm comes up because it's so rare and you focus on that. I did my best to get the chime audio reduced a little more but I'm not quite that good at editing yet!
If I'm somewhere that it rains normally the novelty wears off real fast. The idea of it raining more than two days in a row just seems real dreary! I wish that it rained more here like it used to before the urban heat island set in repelling storms.
jrsnyderjr 2 years ago
Thanks for posting this. I live in Pittsburgh, PA (your Cards gave us a great run last year!), but I have been trying to talk my wife into moving to Arizona for about 10 years now. Probably wont happen, so the bi-yearly trips and the Internet are my "fix" - I so enjoy watching the monsoon videos that show up on youtube.
Keep up the great posts!
jneill1969 2 years ago
Thanks, I'm glad you enjoyed it. I have a lot of footage and you may like my vid "Urban Desert Rain 09/16/2007" on this channel at /watch?v=UM244J2OVnc
jrsnyderjr 2 years ago
btw I appreciate the comment about why you watch monsoon videos...that's among the reasons I do these videos about Arizona and the desert.
jrsnyderjr 2 years ago
you are lucky you got one we really have not got in the Verde Vally
kateam1975 2 years ago
Prescott and Cornville where my family lives hasn't got much either. What we got in this storm was about the entire monsoon. The drought continues.
jrsnyderjr 2 years ago
Well done, JR. I love storms. The harsher the better. You did a good job of presenting that one.
Perroquet51 2 years ago
Thank you, Marc. Sometimes when it's real hot at night here and the walls are radiating the days heat while I try to fall asleep, I imagine being in a Scottish castle on the sea with raging storms all around me.
jrsnyderjr 2 years ago
it's still gorgeous. I think you are very lucky living in Arizona. If I had a choice of states, I'd pick that one. Nice to see you have some palm trees. I love storms, especially hot ones. It's still in the 80's where I am in Canada, but that can change at the drop of a hat any day now = (
Pippilly 2 years ago
It is gorgeous and I realize how lucky I am to be here. Because we don't get a lot of them and when we do, they're pretty good ones, I love them also.
There are a few hidden, out of the way protected canyons where some ancient palm trees survive out in the desert. In Phoenix ours are imported from the California desert where they survived in larger numbers! (Palm Springs, Palm Desert, Palm etc)
jrsnyderjr 2 years ago
go out and run in it rain is good in the desert.lol thats what i do lol
iseehaters 2 years ago
I think we all do in Arizona...don't you love the way it washes all the dust off everything also? You realize how dirty everything was! LOL
You guys are lucky. In Phoenix we only have the summer monsoon rainy season and down there you get both the summer and winter rains. Desert is a lot lusher.
jrsnyderjr 2 years ago
You got the rain when that storm passed through! We just got the wind, thunder, and lightening! I guess it saved up all the water to dump on you!! Could you send it back this way?? We could use the water! :-) When it rains in the desert, as you know, the skies open up, dump bucket loads and move on. Then the flash flooding starts! Don't you love the smell of the rain coming and the way things smell after a rain? :-) Another fine edit, grasshopper! LOL
GreatGig1 2 years ago
You guys build up the wind and hot air (hahaha!) and as the wind sweeps it across the desert over the Colorado River and picking up moisture also from Mexico, which creates the storm. Usually the rain dries up before it hits the ground when it gets to Phoenix.
The urban heat island pushes the storms away and makes the city seem even hotter. I love the just-before-the rain-dirt smell! Then everything is so washed down and smells fresh and clean...the birds sing again! ;~}
jrsnyderjr 2 years ago
Rain evaporating before it hits the ground is called virga.
flyhghgy 2 years ago
oh yeah, I forgot to tell you that we had gotten the rain with that storm! I had done some clips and realized I had a video so I just started working on it and this is the one I was telling you I had dropped another vid to start.
I'm already working on the next one.
jrsnyderjr 2 years ago
Ah, that moment before the storm
when the air is filled with anticipation.
robertpina99 2 years ago
how aptly put...
you always capture concepts a creator was striving for or including in a video and eloquently comment on it. Thanks.
jrsnyderjr 2 years ago
Nice JR ! That must feel so refreshing after a long dry spell. Here in Ohio we're getting 'refreshed' every day for the last week now. : )
giaco44094 2 years ago
hey thanks! yes and you have that lovely snow to look forward to! ;~}
jrsnyderjr 2 years ago
How dare you say the S word !
giaco44094 2 years ago
here pick your choice of "H" word: Heat, Hot, Hell
jrsnyderjr 2 years ago
Going without rain for long periods of time is something I can relate to. Somehow when storms (especially ones like this) pop up, it feels really jarring.
OhCurt 2 years ago
This is the big trade-off isn't it living where we do? We get great weather 70% of the time but little rain and when it gets hot, dang it gets hot!
You know what jars me about storms? If I have to drive...the roads are so slick with oil and water is gushing down on it with drivers who are not used to driving in the rain! Hardy weather people scoff at "wimpy rain drivers" but our rain is not just a shower either.
jrsnyderjr 2 years ago
That was great. Nice photography & liked the music as well.
Those wind chimes were getting a little frantic there.
I'm fascinated by weather as well & as Trish said, we do get a lot of it here in the UK!
We get some great storms here over the sea. I often watch them from my bedroom window. Nature's free light & sound show :)
andymooseman 2 years ago
Storms are great to watch when you feel safe from the wrath of mother nature! :)
Illuminatta 2 years ago
oh yeah! I lived through 13 hurricanes as a kid and a couple were very scary, even as secured down as we were. The wreckage afterwards was surreal with one of them.
We've had storms in the desert that ripped off part of my roof, they can get so violent.
jrsnyderjr 2 years ago
ha! I did my best trying to reduce the wind chime noise and balance it out and improved it some. I'm still not able to split hairs on audio real well!
The Southeast UK has such a mild but rainy climate. Plenty of sunny days there though but when it gets on a rain jag for a few weeks...lol
There is nothing like watching a storm on the sea, great to look at, stirring up of nature's elements. We have a thing about looking over expanses of earth don't we? ;~}
jrsnyderjr 2 years ago
I love storms too.
The thing about England is, that every day can have different weather... the last few days we've had sun, rain, and wind and it keeps you guessing what tomorrow brings.
I guess where you are the storms are bigger and more magnifient, but after a long hot dry summer i bet you really need them
Do you get much rain in the winter months?
NuttersClub 2 years ago
the comment about England's weather reminds me of what they say about Denver (and is true): "if you don't like the weather stay around a few hours and it will change." In the morning it can be a sunny beautiful 66 F degrees in winter and by afternoon have dark snow clouds and bitter wind at 30 F degrees!
It rains maybe 7-8 times a year normally here but the last 11 years have been a drought with rain only 4-5 times a year. So very refreshing indeed!
jrsnyderjr 2 years ago