Are you sure there is enough rain for AZ heat? We are 10F cooler and very seldom get enough rain even with all soil mulched and no vegetation between trees. The rain never lasts as long as I'd think. It's easiest to tell on crops like melons that wilt when they get dry.

Don't you think that the roses would show signs of not enough water, they are with in 5 ft. It is raining now has been since 2am. Rained last Fri&Sat that is only a 2day stretch with out water. The water is running off the roof hard and the side yard is turning into a lake. Thats how it has been all month
I hope you are right and lack of not enough water is all it is.
Thanks fruitnut

Get a rain gauge and you'll really know. If it's not about an inch a week it's probably not enough water. In the heat you probably need more.

I don't know AZ weather, but even sometimes here on the east coast, we'll think "it rained" yet it was barely 0.1" and didn't even soak below the mulch!

Ok a rain gauge it is.
We got so much rain in the last 10 hours that people had to be rescued from houses and cars
We will more than likley be on the national news
5 inches in a matter of hours I have a lake under the fruit trees. It has stopped for now ---thanking the rain god.

Yes last year we had lots of rain. It was great. I live in Camp Verde AZ. The leaves on my three year old Asian Pear is turning yellow. I water about every ten to twelve days. Is this too much?

Up-date we left the tree in the ground over winter thinking that it might improve. Well this spring it did not leaf out. The trunk turned black and the tree died. When we dug it up the roots where rotten. I would say that's too much water from the monsoons. Camp Verde AZ