Tucson Monsoons

June 25, 2009 | By Kelley Koehler | Filed Under About Tucson 

rain in tucsonIt’s raining!

Or it was, for a few minutes.

Those of you that aren’t familiar with Tucson might not understand the glee with which we greet an overcast cloudy day, pressing our noses to the window to see if it is sprinkling outside or not.

Technically, Tucson should be in the midst of Monsoons – our summer rainy season that officially starts on June 15th and ends September 30th.  However, the rains don’t typically start until closer to 4th of July, in my experience.

When the real rains do start, they are these incredibly powerful, violent storms that move from the Southeast part of town, and rip across towards the Northwest, usually in the late afternoon.  Our monsoon storms are quite impressive to watch – lots of wind and lightning, lots of fast flooding.

Sprinkles, however – like today – are for fun.  Tiny little previews of what is to come.

Comments

Got something to say?







Get Blog Posts Via Email!

Search this Site

Loading

Other Information That Might Be Helpful

  • Tucson Real Estate Market Statistics and Report – September 2008 (October 15, 2008)

    The Overview via Podcast:

    Download Tucson Market Stats for September 2008 here (MP3) or subscribe to the Tucson Market Reports podcast here.

    The Quick Numbers:

    Single Family Home Average Sales Price: $233,893
    Single Family Home Median Sales Price: $190,000
    Single Family Home Units Sold: 714
    Single Family Home Months of Inventory: 8.7 months

    Townhouse Average Sales Price: $189,178
    Townhouse Median Sales [...]

  • Tucson Market Statistics and Report – November 2009 (December 7, 2009)

    Hello November! The holiday season is upon us – bringing the yearly slow down in home sales in Tucson. If you look at the seasonal trends in the number of homes sold in Tucson citywide, you can see we traditionally peak around May and have slow winter sales. I don’t expect this winter to be any different. Sure, there’s a tax credit that might be an incentive for some, but there’s no urgency to move over the holidays for that – the deadline isn’t until the end of April 2010. The average sale price dropped below $200k again, for the second time in 2009, coming in at $195,721, while the median is basically unchanged for the year. Compared to the start of the year, the average sales price is down about 10% while the median sales price is the same. (Okay, it’s $250 less. I’m calling that insignificant.) Since the average is heading down and the median is holding steady, that tell us the lower end of the market is still moving and the higher end luxury homes are not.  There are more sales in those lower price brackets, enough to keep the median fairly steady, while the lack of sales of higher priced homes brings that average down. The number of homes for sale were down a tiny bit, pending sales were down, and sales were down in November. Pending sales went from 2060 to 1747 – but we expected that, right? Remember, when that tax credit first came out, you had to close by the end of November. It would make sense that there’d be a huge push to close those pending sales by the end of November. Overall, sales were down 55 units, to 850.

Equal Housing Opportunity Realtor
Clicky Web Analytics