PHOENIX (AZFamily) — Monsoon storms brought golf-ball-sized hail and heavy rain, causing travel headaches for people on the road and in the air.

As of 3:30 p.m., over 7,500 Arizona Public Service (APS) customers are without power in the Valley For Salt River Project (SRP), over 5,430 Maricopa County customers don’t have power. Most of the outages were reported in the Apache Junction and Sun City areas.

A ground stop at Phoenix Sky Harbor on Friday, which is now expected to last until 4:30 p.m. Flights were diverted to Los Angeles, Albuquerque, New Mexico, El Paso, Texas, Salt Lake City and Denver.

Phoenix Sky Harbor has received 1.11″ of rain so far on Friday. That’s the most rain in one day since Oct. 13, 2018, when the airport got 2.19″

At about 2:40 p.m., Arizona State Universi

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