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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. Monsoon 2022: Northern Arizona seeing more ...
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 clock is ticking on the North American monsoon and the annual shift of winds that transport moisture into the western U.S. Vehicles in the Phoenix metro area navigate a flooded street that ...
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.
Gulf surges bring moisture to southern Arizona during the North American Monsoon. Prior to the 1970s, the consensus of meteorologists was the moisture that fueled the central and southern Arizona monsoon resulted from the movement of the Bermuda High to a more south and west position, which in turn transported water vapor to the region from the ...
In general, rainfall amounts are lower on the southern portions of the West coast. [16] The biggest recipients of the precipitation are the coastal ranges such as the Olympic Mountains, [17] the Cascades, [18] and the Sierra Nevada range. [19] Lesser amounts fall upon the Continental Divide.
The rainfall observed over the region during the period of July 25–30 was over 600 percent of normal totals. The four-day rainfall totals of 14–16 inches (360–410 mm) in some areas were reported to have a less than a 0.1 percent chance of occurring in any given year. [57]
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