This year, neither El Niño nor La Niña is in play as Eastern Pacific sea surface temperatures are close to average. So, in ...

This is our monsoon. Much of Arizona typically receives 30 to 50 percent of its annual ... Castro says that’s the fingerprint of climate change in the desert. "It's really about the ...

The Arizona monsoon season starts approximately in June and continues through September. Since 2008, the established dates from the National Weather Service are from June 15 through Sept. 30.

Arizona has some of the prettiest sunsets, but why? There's a science behind it. Here's what to know, including sunset times and spots to see it.

In Arizona, a monsoon occurs when winds shift from generally eastward, coming from California and Nevada, to a southerly direction. As a result, moisture is pushed northward from Mexico .

The Arizona monsoon season starts on Saturday and runs through September. Here's what you can expect to see over the coming weeks. ... While precipitation is always welcome in the desert, ...

Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic Mon, June 23, 2025 at 12:00 PM UTC To mangle an old joke, everyone talks about the monsoon, but nobody does anything about it.

Officially, Arizona's monsoon season starts on June 15 and continues through Sept. 30, but that's only a calendar definition. The summer thunderstorm season needs a series of hot days and a shift ...

The Sonoran Desert Toad, with glands secreting a venom rich in the hallucinogens 5-MeO-DMT and bufotenin, is invading Arizona now that monsoon conditions have kicked in for the late summer.