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Originally Posted by Buckeye Native 001
Swamp coolers are useless during the monsoon season. I think it's about 80F with around 60% humidity in Flagstaff right now and it would feel about as useful as a panting dog breathing on you.
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Right which is why some homes have both--Swamp cooler to save money in May/June when it's hottest and before the monsoon starts, then A/C for once the humidity rises.
But it's also cooler (in Tucson by about 10 degrees in the daily high temps) once the monsoon starts and the point was that swamp coolers were used by desert dwellers in the Southwest before refrigerated A/C became available to regular consumers for home use. Back then they took the edge off the hottest weather and made desert living tolerable.