When Mary Firestine woke up, she didn’t know it was going to rain. Weather forecasts for that mid-July Sunday in the rural desert city of Twentynine Palms showed just a slight chance. But that ...

In the middle of summer, most Southern Californians would be surprised to see more than a handful of clouds in the sky (unless you count clouds of wildfire smoke). But on July 14 in Twentynine Palms, ...

The summer monsoon season will be in full swing over the next couple of days with humid conditions expected in the Coachella Valley and rain forecasted for the surrounding mountains. Sebastian ...

When storm clouds build around the edges of Phoenix, when humidity hangs in the air or a haboob looms on the horizon, locals look to the skies hoping the monsoon will provide a reprieve from the heat.

ESPAÑOLA, N.M. — Clouds build up in the early afternoon and gusty winds push in every direction. The skies darken and then comes the rain — often a downpour that is gone as quickly as it came. This ...

The Midwest may get most of the storm chaser love for dramatic severe weather video, but there are powerful scenes to be had in the Desert Southwest, especially during the summer monsoon season.

Arizona's monsoon season starts June 15, but that doesn't mean rain will follow. Storms need atmospheric conditions to align first. Dewpoint temperatures, a measure of moisture in the air, are in ...

After Muhammed Sajjad moved from India to the United Arab Emirates a decade ago, he missed his native Kerala's monsoon season, so he embarked on an unlikely quest: finding rain in the desert. Using ...

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Colin McGorty-Weir has been helping his family clear out their backyard pool, which is still full of mud, and a "catio" that got washed away during a July monsoon in Twentynine Palms. (Gina Ferazzi / ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The summer monsoon season will be in full swing over the next couple of days with humid conditions expected in the Coachella ...

Indian-born UAE estate agent Muhammed Sajjad, leads a convoy of fIndian expats nostalgic for the monsoon season, on a "rain chase" into the Emirati desert from ...