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Old 07-11-2016, 01:28 PM
 
Location: Metro Phoenix, AZ USA
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Are you sure it's not toads? I'm listening to them screeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeech out by my pool now. They laid eggs in it last week and I had a dead adult in the skimmer last weekend.

Toads honk, almost like geese. They were so loud in the alfalfa field behind where my sister used to live in Peoria that you could hardly think outside. The cicadas (I've always referred to them as locusts) just buzz really loud. I've rarely seen the live bug, but I remember seeing their shed skins perched on the trunks of the grapefruit trees in our yard when I was a kid.
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Old 07-11-2016, 03:23 PM
 
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I heard them for about 2 nights sometime last month, but haven't heard them since. They don't seem to be as thick a they were in the Midwest where you'd hear them for a few weeks. It's an end of summer thing there, more like mid-late August.


Upthread someone said they thought they were only out every so many years. Well, that is true of some cicadas. Some are the 17 year variety and when those guys come out, you know it. Others you will hear every year. Also, one cicada makes a LOT of noise, enough to make you think there are hundreds out there. I found this out one year when I heard what I thought was swarm in my yard then walked under a tree where ONE happened to be. When I approached, he stopped chirping. All "hundred" of them stopped at once


I find the sound to be somewhat soothing, though depressing when it signaled the end of summer where I used to live.
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Old 06-28-2017, 09:47 PM
 
Location: Tempe, AZ
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Default Cicadas Have Arrived...

.... that mean's the monsoons are not far behind. Just got back from walking the dog and your can hear them for the first time this season.

After the so called heat wave or summer in Phoenix since it's not anything unual. You could see the huge atmospheric clouds building up to the east. All we need is 3 days in a row of 55 degree dew points to offically kick it off.

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Old 06-29-2017, 12:37 AM
 
Location: Live:Downtown Phoenix, AZ/Work:Greater Los Angeles, CA
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.... that mean's the monsoons are not far behind. Just got back from walking the dog and your can hear them for the first time this season.

After the so called heat wave or summer in Phoenix since it's not anything unual. You could see the huge atmospheric clouds building up to the east. All we need is 3 days in a row of 55 degree dew points to offically kick it off.
That's not likely to happen until next weekend at the earliest based on the latest NWS Forecast and Discussion. The next 7 days are going to be dominated by dry westerlies thanks to a trough in the PNW
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Old 06-29-2017, 07:17 AM
 
Location: Sonoran Desert
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That's not likely to happen until next weekend at the earliest based on the latest NWS Forecast and Discussion. The next 7 days are going to be dominated by dry westerlies thanks to a trough in the PNW
It feels more like April (with heat) than the beginning of monsoon. Maybe we will have another nonsoon-monsoon.
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Old 06-29-2017, 08:22 AM
 
Location: AriZona
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It feels more like April (with heat) than the beginning of monsoon. Maybe we will have another nonsoon-monsoon.
Last year, the "non-soon" didn't officially kickstart until sometime in July, I believe. The cicadas were already all around and buzzin up a storm (no pun intended).
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Old 06-29-2017, 08:24 AM
 
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It feels more like April (with heat) than the beginning of monsoon. Maybe we will have another nonsoon-monsoon.
I hope so!

I haven't heard any cicadas yet. Last year and the year before on this date the storms had already begun.
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Old 06-29-2017, 08:35 AM
 
Location: Scottsdale, AZ
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I heard them while hiking last month up in the McDowells.
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Old 06-29-2017, 08:51 AM
 
Location: AriZona
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I heard them while hiking last month up in the McDowells.
Hey, Cats... it's possible that may be tinnitis and not cicadas.
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Old 06-29-2017, 10:38 AM
 
Location: Scottsdale, AZ
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Hey, Cats... it's possible that may be tinnitis and not cicadas.
Nope. Even saw a few. One flew and landed in a small shrub right by me. This was waaaaay up top of the McDowells, up near the start of the East End Trail.
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