Comments on: Monsoon Arrives

By: Beth

Beth — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 14:02:56 +0000

Yay Cheryl moblogging! I don’t understand iphones, but what are they thinking not having video?

Just to let you know, this video won’t play for me in google reader, I don’t know if it’s a problem at your end or mine.

Beth
xxx

p.s. I feel kind out of it – like I haven’t commented on a video you made in a long time. Perhaps because I haven’t made anything recently – but hello, long time no see!

By: Cheryl Colan

Cheryl Colan — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 02:44:35 +0000

Brook! Yes, we have monsoons every summer. The monsoon season officially begins when we have 3 days in a row with a certain humidity level. When I was a teenager, you could almost set your clock by the 4pm afternoon thunderstorm in August. Not so much now. But from now through August we’ll have increased chances of thunderstorms, and those are likely to start wildfires from lightning hitting dry brush areas.

By: Brook

Brook — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 02:32:28 +0000

I don’t know if you realize how EXOTIC this seems to someone in San Francisco. Monsoon! Not something I think of as “Phoenix” – but sounds like you get them every year?
Fire, on the other hand, we unfortunately understand all too well right now.
Love the wobbly iphone videoplane. I’m too paranoid to jailbreak my phone but this tempts me greatly.

By: Cheryl Colan

Cheryl Colan — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 01:20:48 +0000

Ru, the hack is a little app called “iPhone Video Recorder” and you can install it on an unlocked iPhone.

Robert, the cloud cover makes it feel cooler. The rain tends to come from fast moving storms – it can be brief and fierce, or, like yesterday, it can let loose about twelve raindrops and then stop again. It tends to make the atmosphere more humid, but unless there is a breeze to stir up the air it just keeps right on feeling hot, with the added bonus of making everyone feel sticky as well.

Thanks to both of you, gents.

By: Robert Croma

Robert Croma — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 19:52:40 +0000

Ah, to be in Phoenix when the monsoon rains arrive. Does the rain make it any cooler, he wonders?

Love it when you show us scenes from your city. I peer and ponder and wish.

By: Rupert

Rupert — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 19:47:31 +0000

I’m behind the times. I didn’t even know there was a hack for video on the iPhone. Could you use a bluetooth mic to improve the sound?
I like the videos you do about the extreme weather. It’s cool to get a little snapshot of something so weird to me and so much part of normal life to you – like the film of the rain that evaporated as soon as it hit the ground. It makes me look around me and see what’s unique about where I am, and think about sharing it.