Monsoon hits Arizona

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Power outages, flooding, downed trees and tornado? Storms sock Phoenix area


Storms rolled through the Phoenix metro area late Thursday afternoon from multiple directions, dropping heavy rain on a large swath of the region, along with high winds and localized flooding.

The storms caused heavy street flooding, power outages and extensive flight delays at Sky Harbor International Airport.

And after things had calmed down, the National Weather Service tweeted a little before 8 p.m. that radar and photographs confirmed a brief landspout tornado had formed in the skies just south of downtown Phoenix.

The National Weather Service in Phoenix began issuing severe thunderstorm warnings for the northeast Valley just before 4 p.m., and those advisories later were extended to the southeast Valley and northern and northwestern areas as multiple storms began moving into the region.

A flash-flood warning also was issued until 8:30 pm. for Phoenix, Mesa and Scottsdale.



By 5 p.m., rain was falling throughout much of the metro area, with some of the heaviest initial rain totals in a corridor along Interstate 17 in north Phoenix, areas near Paradise Valley and in Tempe.

Storms also brought rain to much of central Phoenix and areas of the northwest Valley.

The Flood Control District of Maricopa County reported rainfall totals from the storm, including 1.85 inches at Papago Park; 1.26 inches near Broadway and GIlbert roads in Mesa; 1.3 inches near Mesa's Dobson Ranch area; 1.89 at Thomas Road and 48th Street in Phoenix; 1.3 at Apache Boulevard and Rural Road in Tempe; and 1.73 near 64th Street and Osborn Road in Scottsdale.

At the the height of the storms, Arizona Public Service had about 15,000 customers without power, many of them in northeast and east Phoenix, officials said. About half of those were restored within two hours.

Another 5,000 customers in the Phoenix area and 1,600 in Tonopah, west of Phoenix, were without power after 8 p.m. The company expected power to be restored to them by 11 p.m.

Fifteen power poles were down in an area along Shea Boulevard east of 32nd Street, which closed Shea into Thursday night while APS crews worked to make repairs.

Salt River Project officials said about 10,000 customers were without power at the height of the storm in Scottsdale, Paradise Valley, Chandler, Tempe, Ahwatukee, Guadalupe and Fountain Hills. About 4,000 still were without power around 8:30 p.m.

Power was expected to be restored to most customers by 11:30 p.m. However, an area near 44th Street and Thomas Road could take longer, the company said.

At Sky Harbor, all incoming and departing flights were stopped about 5:15 p.m. The stoppage remained in effect for nearly an hour before flights resumed after 6 p.m., said Julie Rodriquez, airport spokeswoman.



She said delayed flights were expected for several hours and advised travelers and those picking up someone to contact airlines for the latest flight status.

Adding to the misery was a blown manhole cover that flooded some lanes at Terminal 4.

Phoenix fire officials reported they were responding to a report of an elderly couple stranded in a wash near Cave Creek and Pinnacle Peak roads. Further details were not immediately available.

Extensive street flooding slowed traffic in numerous areas. On U.S. 60 in Tempe, eastbound lanes were flooded between Mill Avenue and McClintock Drive shortly after 6 p.m., bringing rush-hour traffic to a standstill.

Heavy rain caused part of a roof to collapse at a Mor Furniture store near the 44th Street and McDowell Road, the Phoenix Fire Department said.

About 25 square feet of the roof broke open, flooding the Mor Furniture store and a neighboring Food City, fire officials said. No one was injured.

Elsewhere, numerous trees were reported down in areas of east Phoenix and the southeast Valley, which were among the hardest-hit areas.

Paul Iniguez, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Phoenix, said storms popping up in different areas around Phoenix merged over parts of the Valley, causing the heavy downpours.

Storms roll through Phoenix metro area; flash flood warnings issued

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justlooking

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Arizona and area gets rain every July and August.

Calm down.


I don't know when they started calling it 'monsoons' though.
Must be a global warming thing.
 

B00Mer

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Arizona and area gets rain every July and August.

No fukking kidding..

It's still pretty awesome.. so does Nevada.. winds so strong they can tip rig instantly..

I've been caught in one, fully loaded.. the guy behind me was empty and was flipped onto his side.



It lasted about 20 minutes and when it was done I was surrounded by about a foot of water.

Awesome Sands Storms too.

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DaSleeper

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Northern Ontario,
It's all because of globul warming ya know! we're getting abnormal cold weather here, in northern Ontario and it's also because of globul Warming........
 

Bar Sinister

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Arizona and area gets rain every July and August.

Calm down.


I don't know when they started calling it 'monsoons' though.
Must be a global warming thing.


It's because the person who wrote the article doesn't know the difference between a real monsoon and a desert thunderstorm.

It's all because of globul warming ya know! we're getting abnormal cold weather here, in northern Ontario and it's also because of globul Warming........

You could be right, but I doubt that a desert flash flood is caused by global warming. Just wander around the desert areas of the US southwest and you will see hundreds of alluvial fans caused by flash floods.
 

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Ah yes, the mystical desert monsoon
:)
from the people who brought us weather forecasts which sometimes turn out to be right less then half the time...
 

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Ah yes, the mystical desert monsoon
:)
from the people who brought us weather forecasts which sometimes turn out to be right less then half the time...

Until you have been caught in the middle of one...

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Streets become rivers and the wind is so strong it feels like your in a hurricane with sand, trash, everything hitting your rig.

Thought when it was all over my black truck was going to be sand blasted white. :lol:

It's fukking amazing, honestly.
 

Danbones

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It's just the words that are funny.
I like getting caught in these things in a small fishing boat when one is miles from shelter.
Heh heh, and then the hail starts...
:)
good times
 

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'Big and nasty': Bees going on attack in Arizona
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
First posted: Friday, August 04, 2017 05:35 PM EDT | Updated: Friday, August 04, 2017 05:40 PM EDT
TUCSON, Ariz. — Two deadly bee attacks in the past week in the Tucson area likely are the result of a warm winter and recent monsoon rain, experts said Friday.
“Rain makes flowers makes bees,” said Dr. Steven Thoenes, owner of Beemaster Inc., a pest control company in Tucson. “There were no freezes last winter to knock them down. We’re seeing a lot of big colonies now, and the bees are big and nasty.”
On Monday, a 49-year-old landscaper died after being attacked and stung while he was at a home outside of Tucson. Two days later, a 75-year-old Rio Rico man who was allergic to bees died after being stung more than 100 times while fishing at a pond.
A 53-year-old landscaper is being treated at a Tucson hospital after being attacked by a swarm of bees Thursday while trimming a tree at a Tubac golf resort.
The start of a concert by Matchbox Twenty was delayed by more than 90 minutes Thursday night after a bee swarm settled into the reserved seating area at a Tucson amphitheatre.
Seventy per cent of all bee attacks in Arizona involve landscapers and hives being disturbed, according to Thoenes, who said he has been studying bees for 46 years and owned his pest control business for 25 years.
The bloom of flowers means a lot more food for bees, and “more bees mean a lot bigger colonies,” said Justin Schmidt, a scientist with the Department of Entomology at the University of Arizona. “And that’s when you have to be especially alert so you don’t get into trouble.”
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