After thunderstorms left thousands across Arizona without power for days, residents are encouraged to prepare in advance.
After thunderstorms left thousands across Arizona without power for days, and with thunderstorm activity increasing over the weekend, residents are encouraged to prepare in advance.
At the height of the storm, about 32,000 APS customers and 39,000 Salt River Project customers were out of power. On Monday, more than 4,000 SRP customers and 9,500 APS customers were still affected bydue to the weekend storms. About 7,000 APS customers had outages through Wednesday morning. Heavy monsoon storms also caused major power outages and damaged structures northwest of Douglas, a small town of about 16,000 people in southern Arizona near the Mexico border.
“The wind was strong, knocking down trees and poles, it took down parts of my home,” Oleta said. “It took down my porch. We are repairing the porch right now.”So far in July, the average rainfall in Phoenix has been lower than last year, according to Bianca Feldkircher, a meteorologist for the NWS in Phoenix. She said the temperature has also been a little bit cooler than last year.
"So we haven't had as much monsoon activity in southern Arizona, so that tends to favor higher temperatures," Singer said.Storm chances are expected to increase in Arizona over the weekend and into next week, according to the National Weather Service. On Saturday, temperatures are expected to drop to 105-110 degrees and by Sunday to 100-105 degrees in the Valley.
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