Summer heat crashed into Albuquerque well in advance of the summer solstice. The city's residents are hopeful now that the monsoon rains will arrive on schedule to moderate the solar blast.
From. a 2005 visit to Chaco Canyon:
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The sun announces
The longest day for each year
At Fajada Butte.
Fajada Butte rises up out of the Chacra Mesa about a mile south of the Una Vida great house.
Near the top of the butte is an archaeoastronomical feature known as the
"Sun Dagger". The Anasazi carved a spiral there on a rock face on which
shafts of sunlight appear at midday to mark the solstices and
equinoxes.
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