“There's not really a good explanation for why that occurs, but that's part of the nature of storms,” said Valerie Meola, a meteorologist with the weather service in Flagstaff. The weather pattern is hit-and-miss, though, meaning some places like Payson are far below normal. Parts of Arizona, including the towns of Heber, Show Low, Bellemont and Prescott, are near or above 200% of normal rainfall so far during the monsoon, which started June 15 and runs through September.
So, yeah, when it does rain, we're in fear.” “It's just that wildfires have changed everything. “We still need the rains and all that and we really need the monsoons around here,” said Henneman, who is staying with family while his house dries out. His wife was babysitting and had the back door open two weeks ago when heavy rain fell and sent a few inches of rain and mud through the home. In northern Arizona, Flagstaff residents have grown accustomed to constant alerts on cell phones and sirens in neighborhoods warning of imminent flooding.īret Henneman estimates he has about 3,500 sandbags around his home just north of Flagstaff where two wildfires burned this spring. Michelle Lujan Grisham said Thursday the Federal Emergency Management Agency granted a request to include effects of flooding and mudslides in certain counties hit by massive wildfires this year to the state's disaster declaration. While the rain is welcome in a region gripped by drought, it creates headaches for neighborhoods where wildfires have stripped the land of vegetation, which normally slows and partially absorbs floodwaters. The National Weather Service said parts of Arizona can expect 1 (2.5 centimeters) to 2 (5 centimeters) inches of rain per hour before a flood watch expired Saturday morning. Parts of the Hualapai Mountains in Mohave County have received up to 6 inches (15.2 centimeters) of rain in recent days, Adair said.
Mohave County sheriff’s officials rescued a woman who was clinging to a stop sign earlier this week after her car was swept away. A youth conservation crew abandoned the red truck they were riding in at Canyon de Chelly National Monument on the Navajo Nation when it got stuck in the mud and water rose around it.
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In Arizona, a driver had to be rescued from a vehicle caught in floodwaters in Apache Junction.