We asked Star readers to send us their weather photos of this year's monsoon season and got some truly spectacular images.
Take a look at the entries and let us know your favorites. See the winners at tucson.com/monsoonphotocontest
2015 Monsoon Photo Contest entries
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Steve Perkins submitted this photo. He wrote, "Image shot above Arizona National golf course near Snyder & Houghton Road. Strikes in right portion of image are looking towards Sabino Mountain."
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Jennifer Williams sent in this monsoon photo taken from her house in Three Points.
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Gaizka Urreiztieta sent in this monsoon photo taken from the Catalina Mountains.
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Barry Morrison sent in this photo taken near Vail on Aug. 22.
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Mai Le sent in this double rainbow photo.
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James Baker sent in this rattlesnake photo. "This guy came into our garage to get out of the storm. Rural Metro had to remove him."
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James Baker sent in this photo.
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Bernardo Jimenez sent in this photo taken in midtown Tucson near Swan Road and Speedway Blvd.
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Kathy Zwirko sent in this photo.
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Dennis Kruse sent this photo of a selective rainshower.
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Debbie Angel sent this monsoon photo.
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James Hill sent this photo of threatening clouds.
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A reader sent this photo of rain in Oro Valley.
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Mary Snater sent this of clouds over the mountains at Sabino Canyon.
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A reader sent this photo of clouds at sunset.
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Reader nharden sent this monsoon rainbow.
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Patricia Howell submitted this photo.
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Charlie Ankney sent in this photo taken at Madera Canyon.
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Logan Place submitted this photo taken in the Tanque Verde area.
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Frank Quiroz submitted this photo taken from Sunrise Road looking over Tucson.
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Annie G. Kruse submitted this photo. She wrote, "The Buster Mountain Fire burn in the Pusch Ridge Wilderness south of Catalina State Park after the lightning strike."
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Scott Hough submitted this sunset rainbow photo.
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A reader sent in this monsoon photo.
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Peggy submitted this monsoon photo.
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Robert Baker submitted this photo taken on Aug. 31 of the Catalina Mountains during a very heavy rainstorm.
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A reader sent in this monsoon photo.
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Jerrod Harris submitted this photo taken in Safford on July 11, when the sun was setting.
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Doc Freshwater submitted this photo taken over Omni Tucson from the 17th golf hole.
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Joni Johnson submitted this photo taken near Sunsites, Ariz.
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Ruth Montgomery submitted this photo taken near Eloy, Ariz.
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Ray Cleveland submitted this photo taken in Sabino Canyon on Aug. 27.
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Rick Schmitz submitted this photo of a rainbow taken in the Tortolita Mountains.
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Kyle J Goss submitted this monsoon dog photo taken from Rita Ranch.
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Harry Ford submitted this photo of "Lightning Stick Man" taken in the Catalina Mountains from SaddleBrooke, Ariz.
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Dylan Martin submitted this photo taken from Sentinel Peak.
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Eddie Zwirko submitted this monsoon photo.
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Greg Ganos sent in this photo. He wrote, "Had a audience while I was taking this shot...after feeding the stray dogs that visit my yard every day...here in the Dogpatch."
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Christine Ramirez sent in this photo taken near Orange Groove and River Road on Aug. 20.
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Nathan Lukens submitted this monsoon photo.
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Joseph Cyr submitted this cactus rainbow photo taken in Sabino Canyon.
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Greg Ganos submitted this cloud photo.
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Anna Orphan submitted this storm photo taken at Columbus Blvd and Fort Lowell Road.
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Patrick McCarthy submitted this monsoon lightning strike photo taken in Green Valley.
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Kevin Reid submitted this double rainbow photo taken right after a monsoon rain.
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Jessica Watkins submitted this monsoon photo taken in Casa Grande.
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Evelyn D. Harrison sent in this photo taken from the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum. She wrote, "The monsoon rains have certainly turned our desert green! I was capturing the green of the desert near sunset with the path and the puddles in the foreground and the falling rain highlighted against the horizon as the sky started to darken and the setting sun began it's show of colors. I took several shots and was thrilled to also be able to capture lightning in this shot."
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Sharon Harring sent in this photo of a Tucson sunset taken on July, 14.
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Megann Tyson sent in this photo taken in Lincoln Park during a softball game.
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Kent Vincent sent in this lightning photo taken near River Road looking towards downtown on Aug. 11.
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Janice M. Ward sent in this cloud photo. "The sky is like a PAINTING!"
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Ken Patrick sent in this lightning photo.
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William Loveall sent in this photo taken at Madera Canyon on Aug. 29.
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Megann Tyson sent in this softball monsoon photo.
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Sarah Alpert sent in this cloud photo taken in Scottsdale.
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Joe Billings sent in this photo of “Saddle Mountain Enshrouded in Fog." He wrote, "At the end of August, after a huge overnight rain, I turned off onto the road to Bog Hole, SE of Patagonia, AZ, and stopped the truck to take this image at 6:00a.m"
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Patrick Cobb submitted this monsoon photo taken downtown.
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Herbert Ross sent in this photo of a storm over the Catalina Mountains.
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Kay Henshaw sent in this monsoon photo.
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Brendan Schilling sent in this photo. He wrote, "My wife and I were on our way to dinner in Chandler on Saturday 8/29 when we saw this little beauty developing in front of the setting sun. Just a quick panoramic snapshot from my iPhone 6 and this is what I got - this is completely raw and not post-processed or retouched."
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David Gooderham sent in this photo taken by Scott Gooderham at the base of Rincon Mountains during an evening cruise.
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Herbert Ross sent in this photo of a storm over the Catalina Mountains.
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Devin Russel sent in this photo taken from his backyard in Oro Valley of a triple lightning strike above Pusch Ride.
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Bradford Kublin sent in this monsoon photo.
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Robert Callan sent in this photo taken along Old Spanish Trail on August, 11.
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Brad Holt sent in this microburst photo taken with a camera equipped drone from Swan and Sunrise. "I almost didn't have time to land the drone before the massive storm hit my house."
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Bob Kerry submitted this wildfire photo taken near the Catalina Mountains on Sunday, Aug. 23.
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Donna Lyons sent in this sunset photo taken outside the Voyager RV Resort restaurant on July 14. The photographer has titled the picture, "The Hand of God."
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Harry Ford sent in this photo via Facebook of lightning on Mount Kimball at sunset.
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Lindsey Glock sent in this monsoon photo via Facebook taken from Talking Stick Resort overlooking the golf course.
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Stephanie January sent in this photo via Facebook of lightning from the east side of Tucson.
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John Buttrey submitted this photo of lightning taken near Saguaro National Park East on Aug. 1.
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Randy Dietmeyer submitted this photo taken during a record-breaking heat day in Superstition.
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Kathy Espinoza Padilla submitted this monsoon photo.
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Robert Scott submitted this photo via Facebook of lightning striking in southeast Tucson looking towards Vail.
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Stephan Guenot submitted a photo of this sunset taken on Aug. 15.
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Diana Minten submitted this photo via Facebook of a lightning strike taken near 29th Street and Craycroft.
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Curtis Lueck submitted this monsoon photo taken from his roof near the Tucson Mountains on Aug. 8.
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Bob Kerry submitted this wildfire photo taken near the Catalina Mountains on Sunday, Aug. 23.
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Tina Sorce-Zirnheld submitted this lightning photo via Facebook taken in Rancho Sahuartia on Aug. 11, 2015.
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Bob Tenor submitted this photo taken in central Tucson on Aug. 7, 2015.
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Russ Weeden submitted this photo taken in Green Valley looking east towards the Santa Rita Mountains.
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Gloria Montejo Ferrell submitted this photo taken taken on Aug. 11, after a heavy wind and rain storm near Houghton Road, north of Speedway.
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AdriannenArthur Basham submitted this photo via Facebook of a storm in Morenci, Ariz.
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Renee Chamberlain submitted this storm photo via Facebook.
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Adrian M. Flores submitted this weather photo via Facebook taken from the Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center at Davis-Monthan.
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Shauna Smith submitted photo via Facebook of a sunset after a desert storm.
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Heather McBride submitted this photo via Facebook of lightning over Morenci, Ariz.
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Mike Sparky submitted this storm photo via Facebook taken near Kolb Road and I-10 on Aug. 8.
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Robert Scott submitted lightning this photo via Facebook taken on Houghton Road looking west.
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Katie Huppert Moore submitted this photo via Facebook taken on the west side of Tucson looking east.
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Reena Giola submitted this photo vis Facebook taken in Vail, Ariz.
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Papa Packard submitted this photo via Facebook.
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Ed Mullins submitted this photo taken in Sahuarita.
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Rico Valencia submitted this photo via Facbook of a lightning strike behind a rainstorm.
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Bradford Kublin submitted this monsoon photo.
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Trysh Scott submitted this photo taken in the Catalina Foothills.
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Michael Quinn submitted this photo of Push Ridge disappearing in a wall of rain.
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Stephen Guerrero submitted this monsoon photo.
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Lynn Haber submitted this photo taken outside her front door in Pearce, Ariz.
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Katherine Murphy submitted this photo taken near Silverbell Mine.
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Colton Blackmore submitted this photo taken at the top of the Saguaro National Monument on Picture Rocks road.
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Elaine Jones submitted this photo taken the northwest side of Tucson, two miles west of I-10, off El Camino del Cerro, on Aug. 11, around 8:30 p.m.
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Zachary Walker submitted this double rainbow photo taken on Pontatoc Road, near Catalina Foothills High School.
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Bob Kerry submitted this photo of a storm over the Santa Rita Mountains taken from Las Cienegas National Conservation Area.
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Lynn Bush-Stephens submitted this photo taken before a storm on Aug.11.
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Connie Lauth submitted this monsoon photo.
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I took the attached photo of lightning strikes from my house in the Tucson mountains. Â The photo is looking east toward downtown Tucson. Aug. 11, 2015
Keith Taylor
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Kim Leading submitted this rainstorm photo taken from Sandario Road looking East/Southeast.
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Jim Connor submitted this raincloud photo taken from Catalina Highway.
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Guy Fedor submitted this photo taken from Sierra Vista looking south.
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Margaret Terrell submitted this photo of a monsoon sunset taken from her front yard in Green Valley.
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Kevin Rimcoski submitted this photo taken at Rita Ranch on August 7, 2015.
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Tad Sallee submitted this photo taken over the University of Arizona during a thunderstorm.
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Sonya Becker submitted this photo of a storm in the distance taken from her backyard looking east on Saturday, Aug. 1, 2015. She wrote, "This storm never hit me, just headed from north to south. You never know where it will end up…"
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Jo Pitman submitted this photo taken in Rio Rico looking north towards Tucson.
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Terry W. Ford submitted this monsoon cloud photo taken from above when he was flying into the Phoenix Mesa gateway airport.
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Michael Simmons submitted this photo of a double rainbow taken from Casas Adobes facing east towards Mount Lemmon.
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Bonnie Quinn submitted this photo of a storm taken in Oro Valley.
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Jim Kousbaugh submitted this photo taken in Sun City on Aug. 5, 2015.
Monsoon Photo Contest Winner: Readers' Pick
Dylan Martin submitted this photo taken from Sentinel Peak. Martin's photo earned the readers' pick for this year's monsoon photo contest after taking more than 35 percent of the vote.
Monsoon Photo Contest Winner: Photographer's Pick
Bernardo Jimenez sent in this photo taken in midtown Tucson near Swan Road and Speedway Blvd. Jimenez's photo won the photographer's pick of this year's monsoon photo contest.
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