The
Monsoon was finally active again in the Phoenix, Az last night.
July 1st - After an active day yesterday on June 30th in the higher elevations like Prescott and Prescott Valley with a classic Micro-burst Pictured below. (Photo Credit - Paul Folk) July started off with the rain and Thunderstorms mainly confined to the Eastern Mountains and Southeastern Arizona. We had a relatively inactive down day in Central Arizona into late in the evening when thunderstorms formed over the Roosevelt Lake area and the Bush Fire Burn Scar areas. These storms sent a outflows into the Phoenix Metro area which produced pop up isolated thunderstorm cells over parts of the valley. One was in the North Valley and was surprising active between 10:30pm and Midnight producing between 0.10 inches to about 0.35 inches of rain at the Prickly Pear Wash and the Cave Buttes dam which is just north of the Loop 101 and SR 51 interchange. At the Deer Valley Airport they measured
0.24 inches of rain.
Here at Pepperidge we received
0.43 inches of rain by Midnight. Which brings Monsoon 2021 to
0.53 inches so far and we are now just
0.01 inches behind last year's season total of
0.54 inches for the
Dismal 2020
NONsoon!!Other pop-up thundershowers formed in the far East valley and near South Mountain area and produced between 0.04 inches and
0.24 inches of rain. With the big winners being South Mountain Park Headquarters which received 0.20 inches of rain by slightly after midnight and just before midnight at Recker and McLellan roads in far east Mesa they had received 0.24 inches of rain.
Further to the Southwest 0.35 inches of rain fell just after midnight on July 2nd near the south end of the Estrella Mountains.
All Monsoon Rainfall Details are located at:
http://www.pepperridgenorthvalley.com/monsoon-rn.php#mon21Classic Thunderstorm Wet Micro-burst over the Prescott Valley on June 30th, 2021
Jeanette