The Monsoon Is Changing
Changing storms in the Southwest are altering timeless food traditions.
08The CounterLongform Features2020
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When the summer monsoon ends the dry season in the Southwest, the Johnson farm gets its water. Lightning forks, thunder detonates, and rain drums mountains, evaporating at first in the fierce heat and dust and then soaking, collecting, and streaming down the foothills.
The torrents rush into thin, empty riverbeds carved by the flash floods of storms past, channels called arroyos or washes.
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