The monsoon started off with a bang earlier this summer, bringing what seemed like above-average precipitation to many parts of the Southwest. I remember thinking, “this is what it was like...
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So far so good: the monsoon in southern Arizona is off to a vigorous start. An early onset had been predicted by several monsoon forecasts, which also call for an above-average July and September...
What will this summer’s monsoon season be like? We ended up with an above-average monsoon season in Tucson last year, thanks to a late season storm, but before that, the last year with above...
After a bang-up start around July 4, the 2011 monsoon ended up being pretty lackluster. Most of the Southwest received below-average rainfall in part because the monsoon high parked over Texas and...
The monsoon is in full swing here in Tucson! Unfortunately, compared to the last two summers, this monsoon is looking somewhat better, but not by much (see recent...
As fires rage in Arizona and New Mexico and drought intensifies and spreads, the questions on everyone’s mind are: Will the monsoon deliver copious rains like it did in 2006, or will it...
We’re all itching to know if the monsoon will deliver this year, especially with the record wildfires, the widespread drought, and the closure of national forests across Arizona and New...
The La Niña of 2010-2011 brought extreme drought to many parts of the Southwest. Luckily, the respite of monsoon rains is (hopefully) only a month or so away. But could last year’s La...
Now that we (hopefully) have a better understanding of how climate models make long-term, generalized projections, can we use them to model our monsoon to figure out how it might be...
Aside from one heavy downpour in mid-August that airmailed my neighbor’s corrugated fence into my yard, the 2010 monsoon season seemed lackluster. Clouds arrived late, storms burst in fits...
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