The southwest monsoon season begins june 15, and it can produce flash flooding, lightning and dust storms each summer.

Webhere are five of the most important things to know about this year's southwest monsoon.

Webalthough the monsoon brings welcome rains and relief from the summer heat, the thunderstorms that come with the monsoon bring their own hazards.

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Webthis year’s monsoon stranded travelers in a remote part of central new mexico, leaving them in a thick soup of mud with little warning as a curtain of rain and.

Most active monsoon season in years.

Flooding in this situation is usually not serious.

In moab, utah, about a month’s worth of rain fell in just 10.

Webgiant raindrops combined with hail to transform an otherwise toasty summer day into a white wintry scene, at least for a few minutes.

A bulk of the.

Webevery tease of the monsoon — the smell of rain, the darkening of the sky and the rumble of thunder in the distance — carries memories of rainy summer seasons past.

Then it all turned to red mud.

In fact, this is the.

Webmonsoons are weather patterns that bring thunderstorms and heavy rains to hot, dry areas when warm, moist ocean air moves inland.

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