Arizona Monsoon, 8/28/08

I've lived in Arizona all my life, this was the coolest monsoon storm I've seen, the lightning has been going on non-stop for nearly 2 hours straight.

(P.S. The sound in the background was Terminator 3 on the TV :D)

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• arizona
• monsoon
• dust
• storm
• thunder
• storms
• lightning
• weather
• rain

[kungfuman82]

Hey, I commented on your vid 6 months ago and guess what... now I live in Chandler! :-P  When do the monsoons hit? Is it a "April showers" kind of thing and we're going to get them soon or what?

[g0ast]

@kungfuman82 Nope! Usually dust storms start mid to late July, when the smell of "dirty rain" starts, that's when the first rain hits and they hit hard and big with plenty of wind, it calms down a little bit then it just pours and pours for days, dries up, sun comes out about a day then clouds again and more rain, then it ends around late August.

[kungfuman82]

@g0ast Wow... so the hottest part of the year is when the high humidity hits also? This should be fun!

[g0ast]

@kungfuman82 Perhaps the first couple days of storms but the rain overpowers the sun and it cools to like the high 70's and stays that way. The monsoon season though isn't constant, there's always gaps over a few days at a time where there are very few clouds or clouds with no rain and it heats back up for a little bit then continues. Every year it seems something "new" happens, like in 2009 -- the year after this video -- it hailed a few times.

[g0ast]

@kungfuman82 The good thing is that monsoon season is almost the unofficial start of fall.

[edlopez99]

I LOVE MONSOON SEASON IN ARIZONA! :)

[seth159715]

I live in AZ too and that was the sickest monsoon iv ever seen in my life..the lighting was so constant it was like a strobe light..lighting has probably never struck that constant anywhere in the world before

[kungfuman82]

@EliteTerm Did I? It was amazing! I was in my apartment and my fiance was working at the Kohl's by the 202. I remember looking out the window and noticing that the clouds in the distance looked kind of yellow-brown and I thought "that's weird". 15 minutes later, BOOM! Couldn't see the apartments across the parking lot. We even made national news as my dad called from Georgia because he saw footage on the Weather Channel. That was a hell of a first Arizona summer! :-D

[EliteTerm]

@kungfuman82 Enjoy the July 5th Dust storm? Was pretty awesome!

[McGrumpus]

Like the Cruz film War of the Worlds!

[RODALCO2007]

That is amazing, love it

[zackthegoth]

I remember that storm, I was standing on my back porch watching it. you gotta love the constant thunder too eh.

[iluvtack]

My absolute favorite time of the year!

[lowproductions92]

@g0ast and yet we still only get 8 inches of precipitation yearly.

[xxoKatlinxo]

this storm was pretty rad thanks for uploading!