Southwest Climate Blog

The Southwest Climate Blog, a new feature of the Southwest Climate Change Network Web site, will explore challenges that experts and community members in the region face in trying to understand climate variability and change and make informed decisions.

Posted by Zack Guido on September 27, 2011

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...

Posted by Sarah Truebe on August 25, 2011

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...

Posted by Zack Guido on June 20, 2011

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...

Posted by Jessica Conroy on June 13, 2011

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...

Posted by Jessica Conroy on May 25, 2011

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...

Posted by Sarah Truebe on October 15, 2010

 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...

Posted by Zack Guido on September 30, 2010

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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