I live in a shrubland desert. It rains with some frequency here. However, the ground here is not very soluble and is mostly clay and rock.

Most of our precip occurs in the winter, as snow.

For the record, this has been a year for brutal extremes in temperature. In the winter, in January, we got something like 10 days of temperatures of -20 degrees or lower, and then in late June we had a week straight of 110 degree weather.