The monsoon season of 2021 was extremely long and heavy this years. It registered so much rainfall in the Phoenix metro area that you were inclined to forget you are living in a desert. Probably, the worst, rainy summer in a decade! There were so many almost totally overcast days this summer that your sunglasses collected a thick layer of dust.
Saguaros are fully drunken with water. Their 'bellies' are bloated and extended! Saguaros have an enormous capacity to soak up water quickly when it rains.
Caution: Satire to some extent!
"... By the end of the monsoon season in Arizona, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ranked this monsoon as the seventh-wettest in the state since 1901. It still wasn’t enough to keep the older cacti afloat [when spin doctors write news articles], said Benjamin T. Wilder, director of the University of Arizona’s Desert Laboratory on Tumamoc Hill, where botanists began studying the saguaro 118 years ago. ..."
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