Hot and dry weather caused the drought to continue across portions of southeast Arizona.

Drought in SOUTH CENTRAL PINAL COUNTY, ARIZONA
From 01-JUN-12 00:00:00 to 30-JUN-12 23:59:00 (MST-7)
Property damage: 0.00K
Reported by: Other Federal Agency

Extreme drought (D3) continued in portions of Pinal County throughout June. The overall D3 area remained unchanged from May. While some areas actually received more rain than normal, those spotty rains amounts only totaled between a tenth and a half of an inch and therefore did little to improve drought conditions, especially since temperatures were above normal.  In fact, the Tucson airport experienced its 5th warmest June on record and had 28 days of 100 degrees or warmer. Since the impacts of this drought began with the winter of 2010-2011, most have already been mitigated. The extent of the dry weather was manifested in dust storm events that occurred on several dates in June.  Thunderstorms that brought the little rain that did fall, also created gusty outflow winds that kicked up dust, ultimately developing into haboobs.  These large areas of blowing dust rolled northward across portions of Pima and Pinal Counties toward Phoenix on three occasions in June.  Two of these dust storms reduced visibilities to less than one quarter of a mile on Interstate 10.

Drought in SOUTHEAST PINAL COUNTY, ARIZONA
From 01-JUN-12 00:00:00 to 30-JUN-12 23:59:00 (MST-7)
Property damage: 0.00K
Reported by: Other Federal Agency

Extreme drought (D3) continued in portions of Pinal County throughout June. The overall D3 area remained unchanged from May. While some areas actually received more rain than normal, those spotty rains amounts only totaled between a tenth and a half of an inch and therefore did little to improve drought conditions, especially since temperatures were above normal.  In fact, the Tucson airport experienced its 5th warmest June on record and had 28 days of 100 degrees or warmer. Since the impacts of this drought began with the winter of 2010-2011, most have already been mitigated. The extent of the dry weather was manifested in dust storm events that occurred on several dates in June.  Thunderstorms that brought the little rain that did fall, also created gusty outflow winds that kicked up dust, ultimately developing into haboobs.  These large areas of blowing dust rolled northward across portions of Pima and Pinal Counties toward Phoenix on three occasions in June.  Two of these dust storms reduced visibilities to less than one quarter of a mile on Interstate 10.

Drought in TOHONO O ODHAM NATION, ARIZONA
From 01-JUN-12 00:00:00 to 30-JUN-12 23:59:00 (MST-7)
Property damage: 0.00K
Reported by: Other Federal Agency

Extreme drought (D3) continued in portions of Pinal County throughout June. The overall D3 area remained unchanged from May. While some areas actually received more rain than normal, those spotty rains amounts only totaled between a tenth and a half of an inch and therefore did little to improve drought conditions, especially since temperatures were above normal.  In fact, the Tucson airport experienced its 5th warmest June on record and had 28 days of 100 degrees or warmer. Since the impacts of this drought began with the winter of 2010-2011, most have already been mitigated. The extent of the dry weather was manifested in dust storm events that occurred on several dates in June.  Thunderstorms that brought the little rain that did fall, also created gusty outflow winds that kicked up dust, ultimately developing into haboobs.  These large areas of blowing dust rolled northward across portions of Pima and Pinal Counties toward Phoenix on three occasions in June.  Two of these dust storms reduced visibilities to less than one quarter of a mile on Interstate 10.