Click the play button on the video window to the right to see the storyThursday's late night storms got the Valley back into the record books.
Sky Harbor International Airport picked up .15" of rain, bringing our total rainfall amount for this season's monsoon up to 3.63".
The impact of that: it's the wettest monsoon the Phoenix area has seen since 1999.
When you look at the breakdown though, the pattern is obvious. We're dry, but that shouldn't come as a surprise considering we live in the desert.
Since 2000, we've averaged 1.51" of rain, well short of our normal rainfall average of 2.65".
2006 was the last decent year we had when we picked up 3.33".
Here's the breakdown of monsoon rainfall totals since 1987.
'87: 2.1"
'88: 1.52"
'89: 1.71"
'90: 4.86"
'91: 1.07"
'92: 4.28"
'93: .61"
'94: 2.01"
'95: 4.58"
'96: 1.92"
'97: 2.01"
'98: 3.57"
'99: 5.19"
'00: 1.21"
'01: 1.14"
'02: 1.68"
'03: 1.37"
'04: 1.1"
'05: 1.53"
'06: 3.33"
'07: .74"
'08: 3.63"
Keep in mind that the monsoon will continue through September 30th, so we've got another month and a half to increase our rainfall amount even further.
