federal long- range weather forecasters say new mexico’s summertime rainy season remains right on schedule. that's great news--- especially for firefighters and farmers. stuart dyson is live in albuquerque's north valley bosque where the fire danger is extreme.. two-tenths of an inch of rain so far this year - the driest first minute thumbnail 06:09 pm five months of a year on record - if there's anybody not praying for rain i haven't met em. nobody's praying harder than the farmers for la nina out in the pacific to beat it and let some wet air from the gulf of mexico drift over our way and drop some water on our crops for a change - this drought is getting old but the weather wizards still say it's on the way out. " right now the monsoon is still on track to start right about the end of this month in the far southern part of the state and move up into the central and mid and upper rio grande valley july 4th - give or take a couple days." okay - the firefighters grappling with red devils like this one are praying for rain too - so are the ones waiting and watching places like the bosque - the riverbank forest along the rio grande - minute thumbnail 06:10 pm where fire danger is extreme. " the fuels are dry - we haven't had any rain for several months - the fuels in the forest - it's just waiting for that little spark to ignite that big fire." right now the fuels in the bosque are thickly coated with cotton from the cottonwood trees - flammable? - firefighters say this stuff is like gasoline .. the national weather service guys say if the monsoon arrives in our neck of the woods sometime between the first of july and the tenth - they'll consider it right on time - in the north valley stuart dyson k-o-b eyewitness news four [www.clipsyndicate.com KOB Albuquerque, NM]