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Monsoons make deserts bloom in the US Southwest, but climate change is making these summer rainfalls more extreme and erratic

  • Written by Diana Zamora-Reyes, PhD Candidate in Hydrology, University of Arizona
imageLightning during a monsoon storm in southern Arizona, Saguaro National Park.Pete Gregoire, NOAA

If you’ve never lived in or visited the U.S. Southwest, you might picture it as a desert that is always hot and dry. But this region experiences a monsoon in the late summer that produces thunderstorms and severe weather, much like India’s...

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