Phoenix, Las Vegas face flooding storms from surging monsoon

[OnlinePoker]

An impressive monsoon season in the southwestern United States has brought many scenes of flash flooding, in particular to Las Vegas where floodwaters turned the famous Las Vegas Strip into a river last week. AccuWeather meteorologists warn that tropical moisture could bring more widespread downpours through the weekend.

A surge of moisture from a tropical rainstorm that brought torrential rainfall to Texas this past weekend and Monday will continue to spread into the interior Southwest through this upcoming weekend.

The ongoing North American monsoon will tap into the tropical moisture, fueling rain as far inland as Albuquerque, Phoenix and even Las Vegas. As of Wednesday morning, heavy rain was falling across areas of New Mexico and along the U.S.-Mexico border, also bringing along heavy wind gusts such as a 58 mph gust in Wickenburg, Arizona. This area of heavier rain continued to slowly track west through Thursday.

https://www.accuweather.com/en/severe-weather/phoenix-las-vegas-face-flooding-storms-from-surging-monsoon/1233460

NHC is also tracking a system that's just moved over the lower Gulf of Mexico that has a 40% chance of developing into a storm in the next couple of days before it crosses into northern Mexico tomorrow. That would rains over southern Texas next week and maybe add to the monsoonal flow.

https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/gtwo.php?basin=atlc&fdays=5

[Hugh_Lebowski]

1. Raining outside here in Phoenix YAY!!!

Not raining that hard though, and it's eerily calm, like almost 0 wind.

[AZSkiffyGeek]

2. We didn't have a lot last night

But it looked like we got more early this morning.
There was a microburst a couple miles away, knocked down trees and a lot of power out, but we weren’t affected.

[msongs]

3. wet monsoon this year but still way behind average for the summer nt