75% of those lightening strikes happen during the monsoon season.
Monsoon season? It generally occurs from July to September.
What's crazy about monsoon season is that here where I live you can "feel" when a storm is brewing. The air feels heavy. Humid. It's very noticeable. The moisture in the air. We can even SEE a storm coming. The darker clouds forming and blowing in. It's fascinating. It can be a little nerve-racking too when the wind is REALLY strong. But it's really nice when the rain actually DOES fall from the sky. It's generally up and gone pretty quick. No real solid downpour like you'd see anywhere else. It's more like a quick strike storm than a long pondering one. So it hits quick and leaves.
What's really great is when it starts to rain in the distance and you can see the sheets of rain fall from the clouds. Sometimes what you see is just that rain that ends up evaporating before it hits the ground. Other times it's definitely a heavy downpour with the accompanying lightening strikes.
So that's what's happening here...what's going on with you?
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It's official!
When the dew point averaged more than 54 degrees Friday, it became official.
Tucson's monsoon had begun.
The monsoon begins in Tucson when the dew point averages at least 54 degrees for three straight days. The starting date is then recorded as the first of those three days, so the monsoon commenced Wednesday. It will continue until mid-September.
So there is no specific date that monsoon begins at each year. It all depends on the criteria above.
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