Is This Heat Really Necessary?

So hot! Bailey the Rabbit doesn't like it! He's doing all he can to cool off, in the basement: his man-cave.

It was 106 Deg. F at Sacramento Executive Airport yesterday (but well below the record of 113 deg. F, set in 1961).

A tropical-type wave is passing through the Southwest. Last night, thunderstorms roared out of the Jemez Mountains and passed through western Sandoval County NM, heading SW towards Mt. Taylor. It looks like there were related, fierce storms in the Phoenix, AZ area too, heading NW:

Thunderstorms danced around the Phoenix area Wednesday night, bringing lightning strikes that set at least one building on fire, 50 mph winds that knocked down trees and power lines, and rainfall that reached up to nearly an inch in some areas.

...Workers at a strip mall near 24th Street and University Drive found a large tree with a base nearly two feet in diameter fully uprooted by winds.

...About 12 miles away, lightning struck the Republic Monetary Exchange building, sparking a fire on the roof of the structure near 40th Street and Camelback Road early Thursday.

The owner of the business, Jim Clark, said much of the inside was damaged from the sprinkler system. Clark said they lost some computers but were able to save other computers, as well as documents and servers.

Officials managed to put out the fire in about an hour.

A billboard on 16th Street and Elwood fell onto a road, possibly after a lightning strike. Power lines in the area were momentarily disrupted.

...The winds built up to 50 mph in some parts of the Valley, knocking a few trees down and scattering debris across roadways and homes.

Clouds could remain through the late morning Thursday, and temperatures should reach up to 106 degrees.

Today, the monsoonal moisture is over Las Vegas, NV, and approaching central California. Later today we may see the high clouds here in Sacramento! So it will be hot AND humid! Yuck!