It’s been sweet to have rain again, especially since April and May’s meager precipitation (1.21 inches of a normal 4.33) and snow (14 inches of a normal 29.3) plastered everyone’s windows and all the mountain snowpack with red-brown dust from places south and west of Ouray.

After almost three miserable droughty months, 2022’s early monsoon moved into the San Juans June 18, three days before the beginning of astronomical summer. Leading up to that, though, our day and night temperatures ce...