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Our 2024 Sky Island Monsoon

September 13, 2024

Every year the monsoon captivates all of us here in the Sky Island region. When the dew point reaches 54 degrees for three days straight (meaning there’s enough moisture in…
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Monsoon rainfall in Sky Islands

New Maps to Track Monsoon Rain in the Sky Islands

July 6, 2023

It’s fast approaching our favorite time of year again — when the desert springs to life with the onset of monsoon rains. Although the projections for 2023 are that the…
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Marvelous Monsoon Hawkmoths

September 7, 2022

Guest Blog by Justin Schmidt and Jillian Cowles We take for granted in the Sky Islands that the summer monsoons bring flowers. But beautiful flowers as we know them today…
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Our Favorite Ways to Track the Monsoon

June 29, 2022

The monsoon is imminent here in Tucson, Arizona, and it’s already started further south in Sonora! I grew up in Tucson, and it was an early interest in how the…
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Watch Six Weeks of Wildlife at the Border during Monsoon

August 26, 2021

I remember how loud the crunchy sound of extremely dry grass underfoot was in the San Rafael Valley near the U.S.-Mexico border earlier this year. For months, we had watched…
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Monsoons, Meso-carnivores, and Bears, Oh My! Two Months of Camera Data from the Coronado National Memorial

August 11, 2021

​A little over two months ago, Sky Island Alliance staff and intrepid volunteers extended our Border Wildlife Study east into the Coronado National Memorial in the Huachuca Mountains with Block…
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Coffee Break: Exploring Monsoon Season and Current Weather Conditions With CLIMAS

July 29, 2021

This webinar aired on July 29, 2021. How much do you know about the summer rains we get in the Southwest U.S.? If you have questions about how monsoons work,…
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Waiting for Monsoon Rain – Where to Track the Season

June 24, 2020

With triple digit temperatures here in Tucson, it’s officially time to start waiting, watching, yearning, and hoping for monsoon rains! Sky Island Alliance staff are known to run out of the…
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