High Country News: Rumbling afternoon thundershowers are breaking over the Southwest, bringing gratitude and sweet relief not that the region needed much relieving this year. Bouts of cool, wet weather throughout early summer helped stave off the conflagrations predicted to erupt after a dry winter, and by mid-July, most areas had already been deluged by a full months worth of rainfall. In other words, summer monsoon season has extinguished any lingering fears that 2014 would be a bad fire year.
In a word, fire...