A quick survey of stations in AZ and extreme SE CA reveals the following:

Yuma, AZ: T = 92F, Td = 81F, heat index = 113F
Blythe, CA: T = 93F, Td = 67F, heat index = 97F
Gila Bend, AZ: T = 94F, Td = 64F, heat index = 96F
Phoenix, AZ: T = 92F, Td = 65F, heat index = 94F
Needles, CA: T = 84F, Td = 73F, heat index = 90F
Tucson, AZ: T = 86F, Td = 64F, heat index = 88F

Hardly one's typical dry heat in AZ or S CA that we have been stereotyped to have. For all of us in AZ, be careful today.

WeatherBeeBadAzz: it's as cool outside as Cleveburg...but just as humid - look at
those dewpoints! Go outside for 5 minutes and you're sweating like a pig. Not the desert
we're used to normally. Ah, the Monsoonage - with all its beauty and perks - - Flowing washes,
flowering everything, greenness. Humidity.

I remember June 2000 when we had our earliest start on record (June 17th). We went to the orientation for new students at the UofA and I noticed that all of the Easterners were having a hard time coping with the heat and humidity (which back there usually comes in July) so much so that a brief explanation of the monsoon was made part of the orientation. Us Arizonans? Eh, we were used to it.

Steve

Talking about greenage-had to whack weeds today. Get heavy rain and a day later you have a bunch of weeds. In the Serengeti of AZ around Sonoita, the native grasses grow 6 feet high or more during the two months of the monsoon rains and the Black Eye Susans along the roadsides are up to 8 feet high when we get good rains. Rains have been generous this month so we have a good start for foliage. Yuma also managed to get 0.74 in of rain today which isn't bad for a place that averages around 3 inches annually.

Steve