North American monsoon

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So what is the M- North American Monsoon? So it's a word derived from the Arabic word mausim, meaning season, so seasonal shift in the wind, um, from a dry westerly flow to a more southerly flow.

So the, you know, the high pressure subtropical high sits down there in, in, uh, you know, you know, south, uh, across, uh, New Mex- or across Mexico, dry westerly flow off the Pacific.

Then that over time, uh, during July and, June and July, it starts working up to the four corners and turns our flow aloft out of, out of the east and, and southeast, be a little more moist flow, and it s- brings us suce- susceptible to, uh, tropical moisture.

Now, we've had...

In the past, there's been three big, uh, monsoon field research projects.

Back in the early '90s, there was, there were two, um, Southwest Arizona Monsoon Project, uh, and also back in, uh, 2004, there was the North American Monsoon Experiment, which obviously looked into, uh, what drives the monsoon, and, uh, you know, how, how it works overall with the large scale wind and the, and, and the rain shifts.

And out of those studies, we, that came out that, you know, Gulf, uh, California was a significant, uh, part of, uh, of our moisture, uh, uh, that moves into the desert southwest.