Monsoon Mood

Desert Oracle Radio

Ken Layne

Society & Culture, Places & Travel, Philosophy

4.8 • 804 Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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On a monsoon evening, the sky streaked with golden bands, tropical clouds drawn up from the Sea of Cortez, everything is vibrant, delirious light. No sound but the crunch of boots and dog paws in the sandy wash lined with desert willow and Mormon tea, before we climb up to the mesa and through a high-desert forest of Joshua trees and Juniper. We sit for a while, at sunset: Great Apollo blazing over western mountains.

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0:00.0	The Desert Oracle Radio, the voice of the desert.
0:33.4	Night has fallen on the desert, and autumn is in our sights and range.
0:34.8	Be glad about it.
0:42.3	Overall, it's been a very mild summer for the Mojave.
0:45.8	One of the TV news stations in Los Angeles even had to put out a story about how cool it has been on the West Coast.
0:53.3	In Southern California,
0:55.3	not a record breaker
0:56.5	as very early records from L.A.
0:59.5	show some equally cool summers
1:01.6	back in 19 and 25 or so.
1:09.6	But still, it has been all right, been bearable, sometimes even pleasant in the mornings.
1:16.8	The nights have generally been fine all summer long.
1:22.5	Got behind the wheel early in the morning last week, or it was and it was 60 degrees at 7 a.m.
1:35.3	And three or four months ago it was 30 degrees at 7 a.m., windshield all frosted over.
1:44.8	Live in the mountains
1:45.7	and you will get some seasonal weather
1:48.1	Mojave Desert or not.
1:54.0	It's mostly dry this time
1:56.1	of year and the monsoon rains
1:58.2	rarely make it
1:59.6	this far west against the mountains where I've been in recent years.
2:05.6	I watched a big thunderstorm build up over 29 palms and that monsoon moisture and heat got a cooking.
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