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