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Old 08-12-2010, 03:22 PM
 
Location: Sonoran Desert
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Wow! Other than a couple of days this monsoon season has been completely missing in the deserts. The extended forecasts look more like mid-June than mid-August with scorching, record-setting temps and dry air. It's getting within a few weeks of the normal end of things anyway. Will it come back? I hope so. Got the electric bill today and it was a whopper. If it stays hot like this, the September billing is going to be even worse.
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Old 08-12-2010, 03:46 PM
 
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Maybe some pattern set up more North than usual.. Colorado gets the "monsoons" also and seems like more rain than usual lately in Denver and the front range mountains
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Old 08-12-2010, 04:09 PM
 
Location: Southern Arizona
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Wow! Other than a couple of days this monsoon season has been completely missing in the deserts. The extended forecasts look more like mid-June than mid-August with scorching, record-setting temps and dry air. It's getting within a few weeks of the normal end of things anyway. Will it come back? I hope so. Got the electric bill today and it was a whopper. If it stays hot like this, the September billing is going to be even worse.
I agree, Ponderosa . . .

Gotta be one of the mildest monsoons since relocating here in the 90's.
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Old 08-12-2010, 04:57 PM
 
Location: Tokyo (but will always be) Phoenix, Az
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Last year was much worse than this.
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Old 08-12-2010, 05:26 PM
 
Location: Verde Valley
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We're getting tons of monsoon activity up in Sedona (with the accompanying humidity). In 5 summers here I haven't seen it as humid up here as this year....I fogot what sweating was like until recently
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Old 08-12-2010, 06:57 PM
 
Location: Sonoran Desert
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We're getting tons of monsoon activity up in Sedona (with the accompanying humidity). In 5 summers here I haven't seen it as humid up here as this year....I fogot what sweating was like until recently
Yeah, that is why I said in the deserts. But now the monsoon has disappeared even up north. It's mid-August. This should be the heart of it.
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Old 08-12-2010, 07:05 PM
 
Location: Casa Grande, AZ (May 08)
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Well - last year our best storm was over labor day weekend if you recall - so there is still hope!
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Old 08-12-2010, 07:16 PM
 
Location: On the border, SW AZ
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I live in the desert... (not just the desert area)... 'n it's not rained much (or long) to speak of compared to years past. I kind'a miss the fireworks... the spectacular lightining storms way off... w/no thunder... Purple lightning is wild. 'Course my road has remained in great shape compared to the craters of the moon the monsoons usually cause... but this season hasn't amounted to much... Yet!
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Old 08-12-2010, 07:16 PM
 
Location: Sonoran Desert
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Last year was much worse than this.
I think you're right. Last year it was hot and humid and never rained. This year it has been hot but a little dry with no rain. And most places got at least one fairly wet event.
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Old 08-12-2010, 07:40 PM
 
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I think you're right. Last year it was hot and humid and never rained. This year it has been hot but a little dry with no rain. And most places got at least one fairly wet event.
I think it depends on where you live in the state/valley as well. This is my first year in Buckeye during the monsoon and we have had it rain only once and even that was pathetic. When I lived in East Mesa there was some amazing storms that would spill over Superstition mountain...I loved that!
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