Monsoon 2013 - July 20, Tucson Arizona
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- The monsoon had been little more than a whimper of late but did it ever wake up! The nearest precipitation gauge at Houghton and the Pantano Wash showed only .75 inches of rainfall through the 19th. In 22 minutes from 2:45 to 3:07 PM we received .75 inches of rain and doubled the rainfall total for the monsoon to 1.50 inches - data from Pima County Regional Flood Control District ALERT System.
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The storm packed high winds, drenching rain and street flooding. Southeast Tucson, where I live, was one of the hardest hit areas. It may be the strongest storm I have seen hit my side of town in more than ten years - a good example of a microburst. The Arizona Daily Star
(azstarnet.com/n...)
reports that, according to Tucson Electric Power, seven power poles were down between Harrison and Houghton roads on Irvington Road - a little more than a mile from my location.
If you listen carefully at the 6:13 mark you can hear the wash flowing. The last 1:20 minutes are stills. My JVC GZ-HM860 worked temporarily, amazingly, after taking the brunt of the wind and rain but finally died on the way to the Pantano Wash.
Update August 30: After 24 hours in front of my portable air conditioner set to "dehumidify" mode, the camera began working again and I used it the rest of the 2013 Monsoon season.
I grew up in Tucson. We loved the summer storms! Lightning! The desert smells so good after a storm. I miss the storms. I don't miss the heat though. Thanks for sharing the storm! Wonderful.
Love the rain in the desert. Sometimes there is snow in the desert. Pretty sight to see snow clinging to a catus.
The summers here in Arizona are literally the apocalypse! We have wild fires, dangerous lightning strikes, dust storms, microbursts, monsoons, flash floods, almost 120°F (about 48°C) temperatures, the humidity AND the temperatures combined in a summer monsoon, property destruction, and dangerous wind speeds. I have actually cooked cookies before by using the summer heat. Heck, even when it's not the summer, the weather can get messed up. Like when hail AND tornadoes broke out near and between Phoenix and Flagstaff in October 2010. Even in more recent years, it snowed the ENTIRE day and night in Tucson in February 2014. My mother couldn't see the road since it was completely covered in snow and the weather news sent out a blizzard warning that day! It was bad. Even right now I'm seeing many lightning strikes and hearing thunder near my house. Just a couple of days ago, a storm hit north central Tucson and it knocked down trees and had winds as high as 70 mph! And also in recent news, about 4 or 5 hikers died hiking after getting lost or becoming dehydrated because of the excessive heat near my city and Phoenix. Most of the hikers were guy friends from Germany and the other was a lady who was taken to a hospital after being found yet later died. I'm not even mentioning the mosquitos, flying ants, and palo verde beetles (search it up if you dare) that come out after the storms. But, I still love living here. We got saguaro cacti, the Grand Canyon, other amazing caves and canyons (Collossal Cave, Antelope Canyon, Monument Valley), national parks, beautiful desert animals and plants, and saguaro hot dogs. A wonderful state to live in, especially during the winter! Just be ready for the apocalyptic summers and the snowbirds in winter (no, I'm not talking about actual birds BTW). :-)
Ooh! I also almost forgot our breathtaking sunsets. All those pictures you can see online about our sunsets happens almost every day! That's why one of our state nicknames is the "Sunset State". We have it on our flag too (the red and yellow part), along with a star in the middle made of copper (since we produce more copper than any other state, that's why we're also called the "Copper State") and the Colorado river as the blue, bottom part (it runs through the Grand Canyon). Our state birthday is also on Valentine's Day! If you ever get the time, I hope you would be more interested in learning about our state! Just search anywhere on the web. It's my home and my heart goes to here (along with Nevada, since I lived there for a short time in my life :-) ). Anyway, if you managed to read this entire thing, you deserve a free Internet cookie! ^_^
I read the whole thing. we just moved to Arizona and honestly I'm really terrified of the bugs lol. my biggest fear is my kids, husband, or I getting stung by a scorpion. I've heard it hurts real bad and can be super dangerous for the kids. have you been stung before?
No. But, my sister and her friend went out in the backyard of my aunt's house to look for scorpions. At my aunt's house, my uncle goes out to look for scorpions or other dangerous creatures to make sure it's safe for my baby cousins. When my sister and her friend went out to look with him, they found a BIG scorpion. Next thing I know, everyone in the house hears screaming and my sister and her friend run back into the house. It was actually very funny. But, at least my uncle killed it. :-)
Buy a bright blacklite and go out at night and kill them. Spraying randomly won't help at all. I'm in San Tan Valley. Keith
Groovyman 1968
I'm in the San tan valley too. Lol. Our repair guy told us to use the blacklight search too. I have to go get one. I'm just worried that even doing that I'll end up with one in my bed or something crazy like that one day. Have you ever been stung by one?
I lived there from 2007 to 2015. Im in cali now but I miss tucson weather a lot
Even cali weather freaks me out sometimes
We Haven’t had these monsoons here in Tucson in a few years now 😢😭 so sad, monsoons is the best time of year
What I miss the most is the aroma in the air....ozone and creosoate bushes.....there is not a more enticing natural scent that I know of.
I agree 👍
Damn right
Wow you just got more rain dumped on you in that time span than California can get in a year. lol
Lol
B Rad lmao funny, but sadly not true :(
B Rad Depends on where you located be in Cali. I live in the Bay area. It rained like hell up here. storms started just before Christmas. We'd get 5 to 10 days of rain, have a few days off then another 5 to 10 days of rain - like 1" to 1.5" each day. It slowed as spring came, but we were still getting fat storms until May. We're back to normal weather - dry and hot.
Not true my town of auburn California gets 50 inches of rain a year
B Rad reading this while there’s 2-3 inches of rain being dropped on us in SD (in one storm)
you are so lucky living in the best place of the world ! I love tucson some day i´ll have my home there
I drove through one of these this weekend, and my party and I were coming from the south rim of the Grand Canyon. It was crazy. The lightning show was one like no other.
Great Microburst footage!
Basically a storm like this slammed Las Vegas, NV, on Thursday, July 22nd. 60 mph winds, VERY heavy rain, and tons of lightning. Didn’t last long, but it was a monster.
I always go on my roof to record thunderstorms too!
Not even gunna lie...hard rain lowks scares the shit outta me😬😬😭
That sounded more like hail than rain when it was hitting the window(s)! Awesome video regardless! I love summer thunderstorms as long as they are not those haboobs which pack huge amounts of dust and dirt!
I miss seeing the summer monsoons in Arizona now I am in California now.
Thunderstorms formed in Arizona in 2013? It was a MONSOON?
I just got back to Arkansas from a visit to Arizona. Beautiful place, but i don't miss the heat...i guess a monsoon might have been interesting to watch from our hotel window, but no such luck. All we got on the weather end was a hot, dry 112 degree day. But it was nice to go and see a place i've never been to. And the food at Culvers was VERY GOOD!
Live in CO now, but love and miss Tucson and the nice winter season there.
I miss Tucson monsoons. I live in Phoenix now where the monsoons suck. : (
At the beginning it looked like a super cell with a wall cloud
Beautiful, Pecos... Got the monsoon happening soon.. From Australia.
I lived by Houghton and Glenn St. for 11 years, and for some reason, I miss this weather
In the UK, last August, we had a torrential downpour, in which one of the stations measured a rate of 145 mm/hr, and it was so heavy that it looked pretty much like it does in this video, where the rain is not simply making dots on the window, but like a constant stream of water, as if a very high pressure hose was blasting the windscreen.
0.75 inches of rain in 22 minutes gives an average rain rate of just 52 mm / hr by comparison, however, the 145 mm/hr wasn't constant over 22 minutes, so the average over 22 minutes that day was probably around the same. We have had some torrential downpours in the UK recently. We actually broke the national record for the most rain in 24 hours, at just under 16 inches, which beats the record for Arizona by around 2.5 inches.
I miss these. Got caught in one in Catalina state park once. Full-on lightning storm. It was nuts.
This is what I like. Please send some rain to me.... Hugs from Norway.
We don't often get monsoons in Colorado, but when we do, they're about like this.
Thats some beautiful cloud
I love the monsoon. It was a good year for it here in NM.
Dude love the time lapse
Microburst at 3:50
Hey when your from Arizona you do fun stuff like swimming in a wash after a nigh storm! Haha
I was borned 1 month and 4 days later after this
no where else in the world (probably) that you cant see your neighbors house over the back yard fence, but are dry in the front yard
It look like a hurricane
*its not a hurricane*
i am learning about these right now :D
Just a normal storm we have A lot of those in Kansas
Chris Kelley Not used to it in Arizona or Southern Cali.
Lol i bet not
This is normal for Tucson.
nunca habia visto esto!! es maravilloso!! :O
7:26 Looks like the mountains in the West are covered with vegetation.
I can never understand why they call these events the monsoon int the states and yes these storms are actually associated with the monsoon but the events are classed and called a mid-latitude version of monsoon rainfall but not the monsoon itself. I live in Australia and if you really want to experience the monsoon visit Darwin or other countries in Asia and India during the wet season which is the monsoon and the storms and rainfall is unbelievable .
I live in Indonesia with average rainfall above 80 inches per year in 2022 we get 120 inches and the heavy monsoon season
Microburst winds looks like....
monsoons may be intense but there no match for hurricanes
they case so much destruction via extremely heavy rainfall and powerful winds (>=74mph)
you're thinking of a microburst which is generated by a thunderstorm. A monsoon is a weather pattern
LOVE TUCSON
Hey man I live in Coolidge and this storm was BAD
Silly guys playing in the rain.
How do they deal with that??
And this happens every year out here in , Arizona.
I don’t think it happens every year.
I actually live in central east Pima county and here I can tell you there is no such thing as a monsoon at this location. If you hate rain and never want to see rain again move to central east Pima county and the rain will be gone forever.
ALMOST LOOKS LIKE A TORNADO
I was curious about the temperature for during this weather event day. Found out ... 90 degrees F there bouts. That would definitely be a nice combination of these two weather elements.
+chip I wish! but when its that hot, the rain usually isn't cold. It's very warm and makes you feel sticky from the sweat and water mix.
Not pleasant ... I understand your point.
looks like a typical storm from oct-march here in washington state....only without the 40 foot evergreens falling on your house, and it can last for days not minutes.
5:28 Next time you videotape a storm like that, either keep the window closed, or put your camera in a plastic zippered transparent bag. Your camera went all wonky on you more than likely because of water intrusion. Keeping the windows closed, by the way, also keeps all that wind driven rain out of your house.
It was on the roof
And they say Arizona has no natural disasters
Looks like a microburst
Very nice
Summer thunderstorms are common in most of the southern USA. But only in Arizona is it called a monsoon. How stupid can people get ?
You are the ultimate epitome of a MORON. How sad there has to be so many ignorant dipshits like you in this world. Go fuck yourself !! ... and get a real education..
Dmsamac : You are right ! But unfortunately the masses of idiots brainwashed by the media love the word monsoon and will stick to it forever.
Actually...
A monsoon, by definition, is a seasonal reversal in wind patterns over an area, usually accompanied by an increase in rainfall over the area affected. The Southwestern United States typically has prevailing winds coming out of the west, but in June, the winds shift towards coming out of the southeast, bringing in bursts of moisture from the Gulf of Mexico that cause thunderstorms like this to develop. The North American Monsoon doesn't have a complete reversal of winds, so it isn't a true Monsoon, but the weather patterns are strikingly similar, and there still is a dramatic change in wind direction. This is why this phenomenon is referred to as monsoon anyway. Ask anybody who studies meteorology. They will give an even better explanation of it than the one I just gave you.
Sorry Groggy , but you are wrong. A monsoon is a seasonal wind pattern in the Tropics not Arizona.
+Wigwam dot57 Actually, you are the one that is wrong, sir. Monsoons can happen in both tropical and temperate regions.
www.wrh.noaa.gov/twc/monsoon/monsoon_NA.php
Tucson is well ok here,Iv lived here all my life,it kinda sucks in my opinion,it gets way too hot here,and Tucson is not so interesting because it's a place for people who retire,it's not meant for younger folks like us,I'm 19 by the way,that's all
Alexander Raygoza Not even. Go to Oro Valley :P nothing but grumpy old farts there.
i live here in the 520 bro....
change ur life or friends cus were i hang out and who i hang with it gets of the chain.....cold can of tecate red....badass girls and 100% fun.... chill at the south side...
go pro camera they are good for this
stop at 2:25 there's an angel!
What where?
That's my birthday
Its a microburst
Tucson you don't trim your palm trees.
We get those worse here in Kansas
If you have a phone put your mouth over your speaker
That was a hurricane like it or not.
Wacky Kelly not to be mean or anything... but its not a hurricane...
+Janel The Geek (2manyfandoms) oh really!? reread his comment
Darius The Hedgehog 180 California Freeways Arizona shreds hurricanes once one enters Arizona
I live in az in Laveen
I study this in school but this seems way worse
Monsoon is a heavy rain
it is a thuder 😀
I love how she blows
How does that not scare u??? Loool!!!
No my time moonsoon
Don't forget the stupid driver law. I other words, if there's a flood underneath a bridge, you cannot drive underneath it.
3:42
Only in Tucson is rain an event. No sympathy try going through a hurricane.
i been through a few hurricanes and now i reside in tornado ally I have seen my fare share of tornado's
Eric06410 no sympathy.
Nice*
The palm trees need to be trimmed of the dead branches, (fire hazard) if lightning hits it
(Palm flambeau)😯😱
It doesn't rain in the desert. Stop lying to people.
Tucson receiving 12 inch rain per year so in moonson season some heavy rain but less 30 minutes form
@@Nmbssk-qo7gn Nah you're lying
@@MercuryBlackN if desert don't get rain what about Dubai received Extreme rain on April 2024 and major flooding?
@@Nmbssk-qo7gn quit lying
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so scary!!😨😨😨😨😨
I know right