#but the monsoon didn't hit until recently

[mayalaen]

Every summer in the desert it's like the desert has a fever and everybody waits for the fever to break (monsoon) and the longer it takes the more the tension rises in everybody and the hotter everything gets and the more miserable everybody is -- so bad that even people visiting can feel it and ask what's wrong

And the ones who lives here full time spit out lines like "it's a dry heat haha" and squint through the air that burns your eyeballs and the skin of your face even when you're not in direct sunlight

There's more violence and accidents and road rage incidents and pets getting lost and you wonder is this the year the fever never breaks

And then the first haboob comes rolling in looking like something out of a horror movie and blankets everything in sandy dirt but it brings a storm and rain and clouds and it's terrible because there's residual heat left in everything for days even after the clouds come

And it's wet and hot and awful and the tension is bleeding away but still there

You wait because you've been fooled before by clouds that only bring a few minutes of sprinkles and this year it happened three times before the real monsoon started

And when it kept raining and the clouds stayed for three days and the heat finally finally finally backed off to the point where pool decking meant to stay cool "no matter how hot it is outside" doesn't burn your feet today and you finally take a breath

The pools are still so hot it feels like bathwater and it's not even refreshing but it's okay because the monsoon has started and everybody can breathe again

It'll get hot again and it'll still be horrible but the fever broke and everybody can feel it

#i hate the desert #this isn't normal #even though it's always been like this #it's windier than it used to be #thanks to climate change #but it actually didn't get as hot this year #as it has in the past #but the monsoon didn't hit until recently #and we had a record-setting summer #with the most days in a row over 110F #that we've ever had #we didn't even hit 120 this year #the hottest i remember ever seeing here #was 127F #real life #about me #i really hate the heat