Clouds start to build in the early afternoon and the air becomes sweet with the promise of rain. The monsoon season is ramping up across the southwestern United States.

Forecasters say it has been a wet start to this year’s monsoon season, which officially began June 15 and runs through the end of September. Parts of New Mexico and West Texas have been doused ...

Satellite imagery shows a timelapse of smoke plumes forming over the southwest U.S. states of Arizona, Colorado, Utah, and New Mexico as devastating wildfires spread across the region.

As the monsoon cranks up in the southwestern U.S., a rainstorm moves across the plains near Rio Rancho, New Mexico, on July 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan) As the monsoon cranks up in the ...