Arizona's monsoon season officially ends Sept. 30 and this year's rains already have made 2021 among the highest on record. "The season, which begins June 15 started off fairly dry, but once the monsoon rains arrived, they broke records in some areas of the state," Arizona State Climatologist Erinanne Saffell said. "By the end of July, 84% more monsoonal rain had fallen in Phoenix than all of last summer, and drought conditions improved in parts of the state." The Salt and Verde rivers watershed, which stretches across 12,500 square miles of central Arizona, had its wettest July and August in...

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