Sonora Wind

May is the month of the Sonora Wind. Earlier in the spring we have cold winds out of the northwest, but the Sonora Wind is a hot wind out of the southwest. If you draw a beeline from Las Cruces in a southwesterly direction, before long you come to the Mexican state of Sonora, which lies immediately south of Arizona. That's why I call it the Sonora Wind.

I have never heard anybody else call it that, even though it's an obvious name, and poetic besides. I did a Google search and came up with nothing. I don't know why this is. Isn't it human nature to notice things and give them names? Hasn't anybody ever noticed how frequently we have hot winds out of the southwest in May? These winds are hard to ignore -- sometimes we have a Sonora Wind every afternoon. You would have thought that somebody would have noticed, and given it a name before now. But evidently not, so I guess it's up to me. But come to think of it, I just did.