Although at press time, the weather report on our Storm Tracker 2000 home page reads “93 degrees and fair” it’s Monsoon Season here in the Valley. That’s because the National Weather Service has changed the way it measures the Valley’s only real rainy season, when changing wind patterns turn moisture from the Pacific and the Gulf of California into lightning storms and torrential rainfall here in the Valley.

Previously, the start of the North American Monsoon was tied to an obscure measurement: three straight days of daily dew point at 55 degrees or higher. However, after realizing that nobody knew what the hell ‘dew point’ means, the Monsoon season now starts every June 15 and runs through September 30. 

Can’t get enough weather trivia? Check out the National Weather Services new Monsoon Tracker, where we learned that Monsoon is actually derived from an Arabic word for ‘season.’ Meaning today is technically the start of season season.

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