It looks like September will finish with several more dry days and so I've summed up July - September rainfall for this quite dry season of 2009. The photo above relates to a real benefit of a very dry summer here - there were almost no mosquitoes buzzing about our front porch this year; allowing us to enjoy the evenings outside without swatting.
July-August-September rainfall totaled 4.17 inches for 2009. This makes this summer the third driest one of the last eleven years (I started keeping rainfall records at this location in July 1999). The two years that were even drier were 2001 at 2.64" and 2000 at 3.91". However, 2000 was an unusual year with rainfall of 3.19" during June (the only June here at house with more than half an inch). For contrast, JAS wet years were 2008 with 10.99" and 1999 with 10.61".
So that ends the frustrating summer "monsoon" season of 2009. It will be interesting to see what October brings - October here is usually very bi-modal: wet if a TS affects southeast Arizona but dry if not.
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