The word monsoon comes from the Arabic word “mausim,” which means season. This is a fitting way to describe the period when rainstorms are more prevalent in the desert. "A monsoon is a large-scale ...

The summer monsoon is off to a wetter-than-normal start in Tucson. Should that raise hope for a really rainy season? Or does a lot of rainfall in the first week or so tend to mean the monsoon runs dry ...

Unusually destructive storms have killed at least 1,350 people across the region and displaced millions in South and ...

A monsoon exhibit at UA Science: Flandrau was unveiled Friday following a news conference at which atmospheric scientist Christopher Castro proclaimed what you may have already intuited - the monsoon ...

The season, which can bring beneficial rain to the parched desert, began Tuesday. Its onset wasn’t always this straightforward. Monsoon Awareness Week kicked off across the Southwest on Sunday, while ...

A late night monsoon storm on Aug. 14 left battered parts of the Valley. Fallen trees can be seen in parts of the Valley. In one neighborhood, a shed was seen lying on a nearby roadway after it blew ...