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[John Teel <jcteel@xxxxxxxxx>]

Yes I see that the average rainfall for Tucson during the monsoon
months is a lot more than for Phoenix.  Somehow I imagine that we're
probably about the only people that don't love the monsoons.  I know
if I wasn't an astronomer that I would love them.  I normally don't
like rain and gloomy clouds but I think these monsoons are just cool!
 Of course, I may feel different after I've lived here for a few
years (or even by late August) but for now they're like nothing I've
seen before.  Their clockwork regularity is amazing (daily and
seasonally).

John

--- Kevin Bays <bayskevin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> John,
> 
> You're on the right track about the weather.  Areas which are more
> toward
> the southeast part of AZ tend to get more rain/lightning, but it's
> also
> dependent on altitude.  So Tucson is more prone to monsoons vs.
> PHX.  That's
> bad for telescoping, but means we have a chance for more relief
> from the
> high temps.
> 
> And sometimes I've noticed that sometimes Tucson does seem to end
> up as the
> dividing line between the drier weather to the west and the rain to
> the
> east.  The dividing line moves around though.  Phoenix and even
> Yuma can get
> monsoons.


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