More storms, dust predicted for Valley

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• Jacob posted at 4:10 pm on Wed, Jul 6, 2011.

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  "Haboob"? Really? Haboob sounds silly, "dust storm" sounds ominous.

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• Tigere posted at 10:56 am on Fri, Jul 8, 2011.

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  Until the late 1970s, there was serious debate about whether a monsoon truly existed in North America. However, considerable research, which culminated in the Southwest Arizona Monsoon Project (SWAMP) in 1990 and 1993, established the fact that a bonafide monsoon, characterized by large-scale wind and rainfall shifts in the summer, develops over much of Mexico and the intermountain region of the U.S. Published papers at the time called this pattern by

  different names, including the "Summer Thunderstorm Season," "The Mexican Monsoon," "The Southwest Monsoon," and the "Arizona Monsoon."
  
  In 2004, a major multinational research project was conducted in northwest Mexico and the southwest U.S.

  The North American Monsoon Experiment (NAME)

  sought to better describe the monsoon in North America, and increase our ability to predict it on a daily, weekly and seasonal basis. NAME showed that despite its many names, the weather pattern we see during the summer is

  not only a true monsoon, but it also affects the weather over a large portion of North America.

  
  Thus the generally accepted name is now "North American Monsoon."

  
  Haboob ? The only HaBoob in AZ. is Janet napolitano in Nogales !!!

  
  

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