Following whatever rain we pick up over the winter, our next bit of moisture typically doesn’t show up until the summer monsoons kick in somewhere in July. So, what’s this stuff passing over the valley some miles south of us? Some of it looks like virga, but experience says that to the left of the clouds, rain is hitting the ground. These weren’t the only heavy clouds in the Phoenix sky this morning, but how can the monsoon season be starting up so early, we wondered? Also of note, we hit our first 100-degree (38c) day on April 30th this year. Fortunately, we’ve not seen 50c yet and hopefully won’t as that’s truly hot. For those in the United States oblivious to how the rest of humanity measures stuff in the metric system, that would be a scorching 122 degrees of blistering discomfort.