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You have to be thankful for Global Warming/Climate Change! 😊

Here's how Arizona's extreme weather is killing the saguaro

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. ..."

Here's how Arizona's extreme weather is killing the saguaro - AZ Big Media (This article kind of describes the opposite, that is false and a joke)

Lousy Weather During Winter 2017 And 2018 In Arizona

Posted: 1/14/2017  Updated: 2/7/2019, 1/21/2017

Update Of 2/7/2019

This Winter (2018/19) again Phoenix Metro suffered an ugly Winter. There were about 30 or more days where the sky was mostly overcast (>80%) in dreary gray, all day long, quite depressive. There were frequent rains during this period.

Update Of 1/21/2017

The lousy weather here in Arizona continued. We had at least four more days of mostly overcast days, at least one more day of rain. Last weekend was dismal. This weekend does not look so much better.

Original Post

I usually do not like at all to blog about weather conditions, but this time it is different. :-)

This is absolutely not an attempt to advocate or blame Global Warming (a.k.a. Climate Change).

Over the past 2-3 months, Phoenix, Arizona, in my observation, has experienced at least 15 days, where the sky was largely overcast with greyish, huge clouds and very little sunshine during the whole day. Often times these days of comprehensive overcasts occurred two or three days in a row.

Further, over the same 2-3 months, there were probably 10 or more days of rain, frequently heavy and long lasting rains. Several weekends were now ruined weather wise, which is probably very unusual for Arizona.

I am bringing this up, because we live here in Phoenix, AZ now since 2009 and this extended period of lousy weather is unusual and depressing!

I wish I had the time and could find a weather research source to confirm my observations!