Live National Weather Service warnings for the Bisbee area and Cochise County — built for the monsoon flash floods that funnel through the canyon.
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Bisbee sits in the bottom of a canyon, and from July into September the monsoon turns that against the town. Heavy rain off the Mule Mountains has nowhere to go but down Tombstone Canyon and Brewery Gulch, so a storm that looks far away can send a wall of water through Old Bisbee within minutes. This shows the National Weather Service warnings in force for Cochise County and the Bisbee forecast zone right now. It is not a substitute for getting to high ground — if water is rising, move first and read later.
No weather alerts for the Bisbee area right now.
The National Weather Service has no active alerts for the Bisbee area, as of Thu 9 July at 15:24.
A light breeze (about 8 km/h, gusts to 18), out of the north-northwest.
Strongest gusts forecast over the next 24 hours: about 51 km/h. Wind words follow the Beaufort scale. This is a weather model’s forecast for the hour, not a measurement — exposed ground above town will see more.
Who to follow when a storm is coming
Old Bisbee was built up the walls of Tombstone Canyon and Brewery Gulch, which act as natural drainage channels. Runoff from a single cloudburst converges on the narrow streets of the historic core. The old Copper Queen drainage 'subway' and a New-Deal system of hundreds of check dams and masonry walls are what keep the business district from washing out — but they can be overwhelmed.
About 10 of Bisbee's roughly 18 inches of yearly rain falls in the July–September monsoon. Storms build fast in the afternoon and evening. If you live or park on a low canyon street or near a wash, watch the sky in those months and have a way out that doesn't cross moving water.
Alert data: U.S. National Weather Service, source weather.gov — a public-domain product of the U.S. federal government. Alerts are shown as issued; this page reads the active alerts the NWS has posted for the Bisbee area. Wind forecast: Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0). This page is not an alert service — sign up to the official channels above.