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A rainy Thursday night across Metro Tucson did not do enough to flip this year’s monsoon from dry to wet.

But it did push the city down in the rankings for driest monsoon seasons.

On Thursday night, a half-inch of rain was recorded at Tucson International Airport, site of the city’s official rain totals, according to the National Weather Service here. Elsewhere across the city Thursday, between a quarter-inch and a half-inch fell.

The Santa Cruz river flows near Sanders Road bridge after a monsoon storm on Monday July 14, 2025.

Video by Mamta Popat, Arizona Daily Star

“It was a pretty solid rainfall,” said Glenn Lader, a meteorologist for the NWS. “Pretty much everyone got something.”

It rained in parts of the city Wednesday night, too, but only .02 inches of rain was recorded at the airport.

Before the midweek storms, Tucson was on track for the third driest monsoon on record, Lader said.

Even with the added rain, Tucson has still only received 2.58 inches since June 15, the official start of the monsoon here.

That means this year’s monsoon could end up tied for the eighth driest, Lader said.

He also said that 20% of the monsoon season’s rainfall occurred on Wednesday and Thursday alone.

“We got a pretty good soaker (Wednesday and Thursday). We are making up a little bit for the lackluster summer,” Lader said. “Even as such, .59 inches in September is still low for the month, we’d normally have an inch.”

Ladder said the all-time record for Sept 18 is 1.01 inches, way back in 1925.

Water in a wash on Tucson’s southeast on a rainy Thursday night pushed a car into bollards. The drive was safely pulled from the vehicle. A half-inch of rain was recorded at Tucson International Airport Thursday, officials say.

Tucson Fire Department responded to two swift water rescues Thursday evening. One call at 7:13 occurred on Tucson’s southeast side near East Stella and South Kolb roads, where a vehicle was pinned against bollards. The driver was not injured and was pulled to safety, the department said on Facebook.

A second swift water call came at 7:49 p.m., for a car stuck in a wash near East 22nd Street and South Kolb Road. That driver also was rescued.

The department urged drivers to never drive through flooded roadways.

The official end to the Monsoon on Sept. 30 is fast approaching, but Lader said there is still some chance for more rain before the season concludes.

The weekend will take a downturn, for rain chances. The chance of thunderstorms in Tucson is 12% on Saturday and 18% Sunday, with high temperatures in the mid-90s.

An uptick in the chance of rain here is expected early next week.

“We don’t have much time left. In this situation we are trying to at least get the numbers back to normal,” he said. “With (the amounts we’ve gotten recently), it only takes a few days â€Ļ It’s certainly beneficial, but we’ve got some work to do to get even to normal.”

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