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Old 10-25-2009, 01:45 PM
 
Location: Tokyo (but will always be) Phoenix, Az
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Did you think our monsoon season this year was good, okay, could of been better, or nothing compared to the 2008 monsoon season and was horrible?

Sorry for starting this thead almost 2 months after it ended.
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Old 10-25-2009, 02:53 PM
 
Location: Tempe, AZ USA
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What monsoon? I've lived here long enough to remember a REAL monsoon season. This was like many we've had over the last several years, a bust.
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Old 10-25-2009, 02:57 PM
 
Location: The #1 sunshine state, Arizona.
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No light show and little rainfall.
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Old 10-25-2009, 03:01 PM
 
Location: Mesa, Az
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No light show and little rainfall.
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What monsoon? I've lived here long enough to remember a REAL monsoon season. This was like many we've had over the last several years, a bust.
It sucked as both of you alluded to.
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Old 10-25-2009, 03:57 PM
 
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It was a weak monsoon, but look for a wet winter. longerangeweather.com predicts that it will be a wet winter... I'd be interested to know what Piers Corbyn predicts, but you've got to pay money to find out.

The Old Farmer's Almanac (which is surprisingly accurate) is predicting average precipitation for the winter but above-average precipitation for the spring.

Who knows?
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Old 10-25-2009, 05:45 PM
 
Location: Tokyo (but will always be) Phoenix, Az
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What monsoon? I've lived here long enough to remember a REAL monsoon season. This was like many we've had over the last several years, a bust.
That's exactly what I was thinking. It seems as though we are having on and off years. 2006- above normal. 2007- below normal, 2008- way above normal, 2009- we had a monsoon season?
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Old 10-25-2009, 05:46 PM
 
Location: Tokyo (but will always be) Phoenix, Az
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Of course if anyone noticed we had more rain and lightning storms in the morning then the evening. And what's weird is that we probably had more rain in the first 12 days of September than the entire season.
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Old 10-25-2009, 09:22 PM
 
Location: Gilbert, AZ
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What monsoon?
That is exactly what I was going to say
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Old 10-26-2009, 01:10 AM
 
Location: East Central Phoenix
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It was a weak monsoon, but look for a wet winter. longerangeweather.com predicts that it will be a wet winter... I'd be interested to know what Piers Corbyn predicts, but you've got to pay money to find out.

The Old Farmer's Almanac (which is surprisingly accurate) is predicting average precipitation for the winter but above-average precipitation for the spring.

Who knows?
Well, I know from experience to not trust the NWS on their long range predictions. They're not even very accurate on their short range precipitation forecasts. So while I'm certainly hoping for a wet winter, all I can say is that I'll believe it when I see it.

I'm thinking that the Farmer's Almanac MIGHT be correct on their predictions for an average winter and wetter than normal spring because that's how quite a few El Niños have panned out. Often, the heavier precipitation in southern CA & the Southwest doesn't arrive until February or March during these El Niño periods. That was the case during the 1997-1998 winter season when the NWS said the whole winter would be extremely wet. It turned out that only February & March were wetter than normal. A similar situation happened during the 2002-2003 El Niño winter: most of the heavy rain occurred during February of '03, and the rest of the season was drier than normal.

As far as this summer's monsoon was concerned: it was definitely on the dry side. On the other hand, it shouldn't be too surprising because practically every monsoon over the past nine years or so has been lacking significant rainfall. But as I said before: our winter months average more rain than the summer monsoon months, so we really shouldn't be too dependent on the summer thunderstorms. I'm much more concerned if the winters are dry because that poses greater consequences in the long term.
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Old 10-26-2009, 03:26 AM
 
Location: Phoenix
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I remember a few years ago it would rain so hard I couldn't see out of my windows even with my wipers on full blast we got huge sized rain droplets that would pound my car and flood the streets almost instantly.

I was driving down Camelback this year and the power went out from 40th st to about 56th st, it was spooky since it was pitch black. I think we got one good storm, and that was it.
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