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Northern Arizona has seen more rain this summer than typical, the weather service says. Here's why and what to expect for the rest of the monsoon.
Phoenix’s monsoon record is doing more than fueling the heat – it’s a sign of a much more widespread issue developing in the Southwest. Phoenix’s brutal, record-breaking summer just hit ...
The National Weather Service said Sunday that the monsoon season this year in the arid Southwest dropped only 0.15 inches (.38 centimeters) of rainfall from June 15 to September 30.
August is the wettest month (0.93 in (24 mm)), while June is the driest (0.02 in (0.51 mm)). On September 8, 2014, the city of Phoenix recorded its single highest rainfall total by the National Weather Service with 3.30 in (84 mm), breaking the 75-year-old record of 2.91 in (74 mm), set on September 4, 1939. [19]
A monsoon (/ m ɒ n ˈ s uː n /) is traditionally a seasonal reversing wind accompanied by corresponding changes in precipitation [1] but is now used to describe seasonal changes in atmospheric circulation and precipitation associated with annual latitudinal oscillation of the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) between its limits to the north and south of the equator.
Last 24 hours of rainfall over the lower 48 - National Weather Service rainfall network; Rainfall forecasts for the lower 48; Current map of forecast precipitation over the United States during the next three hours.
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Summer monsoon rain over eastern New Mexico. The North American monsoon, variously known as the Southwest monsoon, the Mexican monsoon, the New Mexican monsoon, or the Arizona monsoon [1] is a term for a pattern of pronounced increase in thunderstorms and rainfall over large areas of the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico.