Images from this year's monsoon action around Tucson by the Arizona Daily Star photography staff.
Mamta Popat
Photojournalist
About
Mamta Popat has been a photojournalist with the Arizona Daily Star since 2003. She covers a wide range of topics including daily life, news, border issues and Big-12 sports. She's the only vegetarian in the photo department.
Jalene Stradling, uses an airbrush as she recreates the cake she made to win first place in the Beyond the Image award in the Kroger Cake Challenge.
Jalene Stradling, recreates the cake she made to win first place in the Beyond the Image award in the Kroger Cake Challenge decorating contest…
Judy Boren, left, holds up the cake her daughter, Jalene Stradling, made to win first place in the Beyond the Image award in the Kroger Cake C…
A driver kicks up water at the intersection of N. Fourth Ave and Sixth Street after a late-season monsoon storm rolled through Pima County on …
A woman runs through a puddle as a man walks into it at the intersection of N. Fourth Ave and Sixth Street after a late-season monsoon storm r…
An outside tent at The Hut, 305 N 4th Ave, is blown down after a late-season monsoon storm rolled through Pima County on August 27, 2026.
The Santa Cruz river flows after a late-season monsoon storm rolled through Pima County on August 27, 2026.