#condensation

Condensation

Condensation season.

The second most obvious sign that the annual monsoon has arrived here in the Arizona desert is humidity high enough to bedazzle a bottle of cold water with droplets of condensation. (The first obvious sign is actual rainfall.) Our normal state is extreme aridity, but once the relative humidity climbs above 25% conditions are right for monsoon storms to form. I lived most of my life in a mid-Atlantic state, where stifling humidity was the norm, so even when the monsoon is fully established it still feels pleasantly dry here.