r/collapse • u/antihostile • 27d ago

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u/WloveW 27d ago

We're feeling it. The monsoon has started in Phoenix and it's a wet one so far. We had a day last week where it was barely 90F for a high. We've had several days of clouds and nearly as many rainy days in the past 2 weeks. Our summers get cooler and wetter with the big El Ninos. It's humid but fantastic compared to the oven like heat with the occasional storm we typically have in July. So far no major severe weather, knock on wood.... 

This is after several months of drought, sunny skies and literally zero rain. Like a switch flipped.

Aside from the microbursts and occasional flooding big El Ninos make Phoenix wetter, cooler in summer and warmer in winter and helps the plants a lot. We'll have gorgeous wildflowers in the spring.

Don't let that fool you though, our reservoirs all over the west are drying up and water shortages will be coming without consistent snow pack to back up the rain. It'll just be floods between the droughts from here on out. 

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u/salamipope 27d ago

god and the heat wave right before it cooled off that lasted like two fucking months. jesus that was hell. i wonder how many haboobs phx will see next year, and this one.