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As of Thursday, Tucson’s official rainfall total from this year’s monsoon: 1.94 inches.

That’s how much rain has fallen at Tucson International Airport, where the city’s official weather records are recorded, the National Weather Service here said.

That’s way below the 5.51 inches the airport received by the same time last year, the office said.

Tucson’s monsoon season spans from June 15 through Sept. 30.

To track rainfall totals at the airport, head to NWS Tucson’s monsoon page at www.weather.gov/twc/monsoon.

The airport isn’t the only area of the Old Pueblo to have rainfall come in well below totals of recent years.

For example, the public works building downtown, beginning June 15, has received 1.54 inches of rain through Thursday, according to the Pima County Regional Flood Control District.

Through Aug. 21 for the same period last year, the public works building received 4.76 inches of rain, according to the Flood Control District. That’s over three times the amount that has fallen this year.

Some other areas across metro Tucson have also received much less rain within this monsoon season when compared to last year, for example:

The official monsoon rainfall total, measured at Tucson’s airport, was still under two inches late last week. The season has until Sept. 30 to pick up the rain pace.

Arroyo Chico Wash at Cherry Avenue has received 2.56 inches as of Thursday; it received 4.65 inches through Aug. 21 last year.

Pantano Wash at Houghton Road has received 2.4 inches as of Thursday; it received 3.27 inches through Aug. 21 last year.

The Rillito Basin, near the intersection of Ruthrauff Road and North La Cholla Boulevard, has received 1.54 inches through Thursday; through Aug. 21 last year, it received 5.24 inches of rain.

Some areas of Metro Tucson have seen a lot more rain this year, like 3.86 inches collected near West Moore Road and North La Cholla Boulevard from the start of the monsoon through Thursday. Similarly, for the same period, 6.10 inches fell near Finger Rock Wash at East Skyline Drive and 2.40 inches at Pantano Wash at South Houghton Road.

The Pima County Flood Control District operates a network of real-time gauges and sensors that track rainfall across dozens of spots around the metro area.

Go to www.pima.gov/1686/Precipitation-Streamflow-Data to look up rain totals near where you live.

PHOTOS: Attracting the ladies, and other monsoon critters action

It isn't just humans who love it when the monsoon rains enliven the desert, perking everything up.

Critters come out to play, bigtime. 

"Summer rains trigger a second breeding season for many animals, from insects to the birds and mammals that feed on the insects," the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum in Tucson notes on its website, adding:.

Many butterflies emerge or arrive with the rains.

Giant palo verde beetles emerge to mate and lay eggs.

Spadefoot toads and Sonoran green toads "begin their short and frenzied reproductive cycles in the shallow rain puddles."

Nectar-feeding bats and their new young begin to move south, following the blooms of agaves.

And it gets buggy out there. 

"Look for swirling swarms of winged leaf-cutter and harvester ants the morning after heavy rain; these are new queens and males which will mate and establish new colonies."

Here's a photo gallery of some of Southern Arizona's monsoon critters of the Sonoran Desert.

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