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monsoon season

‘Failed monsoon’ is not the future

The good news is, climatologists don’t think these last two historically dry monsoons in a row represent the future of the Southwest monsoon. The bad news is, researchers believe other parts of the year will get drier. The 2020 Southwest monsoon...

Rain, rain come our way, so we can go out in day

The Arizona monsoon officially started on June 15, using the date-only method, but the meteorological method based on dew points means the monsoon has just now arrived. Despite the official date of June 15, we have not had any precipitation...

Low rainfall sets a new record for driest monsoon

The monsoon in Northern Arizona that offi­cially ended Sunday, Sept. 15, is the driest in history. “The National Climatic Data Center shows that the June to September period for Arizona was the driest on record...

Wet winter storms lead to bone-dry monsoon

On the afternoon of Saturday, Aug. 24, some­thing that should not be unusual happened. It finally rained. It was only the third time since the beginning of Northern Arizona’s unusu­ally dry monsoon that rain fell.  Whereas the historic average...

Sound and fury but no rain might be our theme

Sedona residents watched the skies Wednesday, Aug. 28, anticipating that the massive buildup of gray and black clouds to the south and west meant we were due for a major monsoon thun­derstorm by the end of the night.  In...

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Lianne Lydum named Teacher of the Year

Verde Valley School Spanish teacher Lianne Lydum, who is in her ninth year with the school, was named one...
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