Will the Southwest become more humid? (Phoenix, Tucson: 2013, neighborhood, gated)

[twixcookie]

Will the Southwest become more humid, as more golf courses and other plants, trees are planted and irrigated?
I was in Tucson, and it was every bit as humid as the midwest. The humidity was blamed on the monsoon season, but you have to wonder.............

[sablebaby]

No, it's just due to the monsoon. I think we would have to have wall to wall golf courses to get a significant humidity. We are still a true blue desert.

[Bummer]

Originally Posted by twixcookie

Will the Southwest become more humid, as more golf courses and other plants, trees are planted and irrigated?
I was in Tucson, and it was every bit as humid as the midwest. The humidity was blamed on the monsoon season, but you have to wonder.............

NO WAY, Twixcookie

As I posted previously, you visited Tucson at the absolute worst weather time possible (July and August) . . . HOT AND HUMID with frequent afternoon and evening Thunder Storms. Interesting to note, many people love the Monsoons and look forward to them but NOT ME.

Try another month, in fact ANY other month, and you will experience very low, possibly single digit, relative humidity and dew point temperatures. In fact, there are times it is so dry that when it rains the water actually evaporates prior to reaching the groud.

[Magnum Mike]

I don't think the southwest will become more humid.

There is a park in the neighborhood that I live in and a golf course less than a half a mile down the street, and as a result, summer time temperatures are usually about 5 degrees cooler than the official high at Sky Harbor. But there's a slight downside and that's the negligible increase in humidity, but it's not much to be a concern.

I also know that when I drive by golf courses, the air outside is cooler and that's not unusual because there's less materials that retain and radiate heat.

[vegaspilgrim]

Originally Posted by twixcookie

Will the Southwest become more humid, as more golf courses and other plants, trees are planted and irrigated?
I was in Tucson, and it was every bit as humid as the midwest. The humidity was blamed on the monsoon season, but you have to wonder.............

I went to Tucson last weekend, I thought it was awesome!!! Getting clouds in for a change. Some nice rain. Having temperatures in the 90s, rather than the 110s. I thought it was so nice, I didn't want to drive back to Tempe. But yeah, don't kid yourself, that is 100% due to the monsoon season. Even here in the Phoenix area the last few days we've been back to the endless dry heat again.

[Ozark Nana]

Ah, come on Bummer, you don't LOVE the monsoons? The flooded streets, blocked drains, road closures, leaking roofs, running washes?

I know, not everyone is a monsoon lover! I however am the exact opposite. I love the monsoon season, the beauty of the clouds building over the mountains all day looking like huge emptied jars of marshmallow fluff! The breathtaking lightning strikes, the smell of the air after a good old fashioned down pour....all that beautiful, sweet smelling wet sage in the deserts, the Colorado River toads that are a big as dinner plates and the huge tarantula's that come out of hiding.....got to love the desert when it rains, it's my favorite time of year here!!

O.Nana

[Bummer]

Ok, Ozark Nana . . . Monsoons aren't all bad . . . I GUESS!

[E. Heller]

I have heard studies of large metroplitan areas create "greenspots" (creating thie own micro-climate) El Paso, TX would be a good case study with graph showing monthly average humidity levels over years. This year (2013), the desert just about died by heat before the rains finally came.

[pokuku]

Originally Posted by twixcookie

Will the Southwest become more humid, as more golf courses and other plants, trees are planted and irrigated?
I was in Tucson, and it was every bit as humid as the midwest. The humidity was blamed on the monsoon season, but you have to wonder.............

Hello, are you new here? This happens every single year at the same time each year...which is right now.

[CheyDee]

Originally Posted by pokuku

Hello, are you new here? This happens every single year at the same time each year...which is right now.

If s/he was new then, s/he isn't any longer. The OP was written SIX years ago.