When does the Monsoon Season start in Arizona?

This is a great question!! On average the monsoon season begins  the first two weeks of July.

I moved out to Arizona in mid July 3 years ago and found it rained every day for 3 weeks straight. Okay, when I say rain, it didn’t just lightly rain, it down poured and the thunder and lightening show that went along with it was pretty impressive too!!  I thought, “wow it sure does rain a lot here and I am never going to get any sleep with the loud crashing booms at night.”  Not  knowing that the Monsoon Season in Arizona only lasts about 2-3 months.  And pretty much the only precipitation we see for the whole year.

The storms are beautiful, but very dangerous.  The strong forced winds produce dust storms that make you feel you are Dorothy in the wizard of OZ, being taken away in a dust storm and not a tornado.  

I remember driving home from Scottsdale one day going south on the 101.  All of a sudden out of no where, the wind started blowing aroundaround 80MPH and the cars on 101 south became the targets of flying tumble weeds.

Tumble weeds become very dangerous when there are thousands of them flying at your car at rates of 60 MPH and higher… I literally had to get in the middle lane and hide my car beside a pickup so my car wouldn’t continue to get scratched up….Now that I think about it, the scratches down the side of my car that I accused someone of keying my car for so long, probably are the result of the tumbleweed massacre that my car endured.

We tend to stay inside and watch these storms from the safety of our own homes.  These storms travel pretty fast, so there usually isn’t enough time to get off the roads and into a safe place.

Please share  your story about the Monsoon Season.

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