The monsoon began July 3, if you use the traditional method of assigning a start date to the first of three days in which the average surface dew-point temperature was 54 or higher.

That happened on Sunday - a dew-point reading of 57 degrees, followed by 65s on Monday and Tuesday.

July 3 is the average historical start of the monsoon. The modern average start date is July 7.


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