Monsoons make deserts bloom in the US Southwest, but climate change is making these summer rainfalls

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Monsoons make deserts bloom in the US Southwest, but climate change is making these summer rainfalls more extreme and erratic

If you’ve never lived in or visited the U.S. Southwest, you might picture it as a desert that is always hot and dry. But this region experiences a monsoon in the late summer that produces thunderstorms and severe weather, much like India’s famous summer deluges.

And this year, it generated a lot of rain.

July 2021 was the wettest month since record keeping started at the Tucson, Arizona, airport in 1895, with 8.06 inches (205 millimeters) of rainfall – equivalent to 70% of what the city receives in an average year. This year’s monsoon is the third-wettest ever in Tucson, with 12.80 inches (325 millimeters) of rain.

It was completely the opposite in 2020: Tucson had a dry “non-soon”, with less than 2 inches of rain. These conditions and record high temperatures fueled Arizona’s largest wildfire season in a decade, including the Bighorn Fire, which decimated over 60% of the forest in the Catalina Mountains north of Tucson.

With our drought and our now erratic, feast-or-famine monsoons, our water supply is on life support.

It is time we in Arizona start really looking for solutions. I have one. It will take reworking the 1922 Colorado Protocol completely.

My opponent only wants tax cuts for Big Ag, but the rest of us knows Big Ag dies without water. It's the Big Business "Locust" Mentality; pillage until there is nothing left, then pillage another area.

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