Barely anything is coming out of the vents.
The air is cold enough. There is just not much of it, which is its own problem.
Weak airflow matters more than it feels like it should. It is not just a comfort complaint. Starved airflow across the evaporator coil is one of the two things that freezes a coil, and a frozen coil is the cheap route to an expensive compressor repair.
So this is worth chasing.
Weak everywhere, or weak in one place
Separate these first, because the causes do not overlap.
Weak at every vent points at the whole system: filter, blower, or static pressure.
Weak at one or two vents points at the duct serving them, and the one room guide covers that.
The ten minute checks
The filter. Hold it to a light. If you cannot see through it, it has been strangling the system for a while. Also check it is the right size and seated properly, because air that goes around a filter takes dirt straight to the coil.
The filter rating. A very dense filter in a system not designed for it chokes airflow by design. The MERV guide covers why the highest number is often the wrong choice.
Closed or blocked vents. All supply registers open, including the spare room. Nothing standing on a floor register.
The return. Furniture against a return grille does more damage than people expect, because return is half the system.
Then the blower
The blower motor drives a wheel with a lot of small curved blades, and those blades load up with dust. A caked wheel still spins and moves a fraction of the air it should. It is invisible unless somebody takes the cover off.
A failing blower capacitor gives a motor that runs slow or starts unreliably, which reads as weak airflow that comes and goes.
Then static pressure
This is the measurement that settles it. Static pressure across the system is the HVAC equivalent of blood pressure: it tells you whether the blower is fighting something.
High static with a clean filter means a restriction somewhere else: undersized return, crushed duct, a coil that is dirty on the inside, or a system that was never ducted properly for its tonnage.
Guessing at this without measuring is how people end up replacing a blower motor that was fine.
The ones that are not fixable with parts
Undersized return ducting and too few returns for the house are design problems. They are common in older Valley homes that have had a system upgraded without the duct being touched.
Nothing is broken, and no replacement part changes it. Worth knowing before you spend, because the fix is duct work, which is off the list here and goes to a licensed Arizona contractor.
Questions that come with this one.
Is weak airflow actually damaging?
Yes, which is why it is worth chasing rather than tolerating. Not enough air across the indoor coil is one of the two causes of a frozen coil, and a frozen coil is how compressors get liquid refrigerant sent back to them. Weak airflow is also the single most common reason a system runs all day without cooling the house.
Why is it weak at some vents and fine at others?
That is a distribution problem rather than a volume problem, and the causes are different. A single weak room usually means duct. Weak everywhere means filter, blower, or static pressure across the whole system.
Can a filter really make that much difference?
Yes. A loaded filter is the most common cause by a wide margin, and a dense filter that was never right for the system is a close second. Both are cheap to rule out before anybody opens anything.
Other things that go wrong.
Water is coming out of a vent.
Water at a vent is not condensation on the grille. Something upstream is overflowing.
Read itThere is ice on the outdoor unit.
Winter frost on a heat pump is routine. Summer ice outside is not, and it points somewhere specific.
Read itDownstairs is fine. Upstairs is not.
Heat rises, the roof is the hottest thing you own, and one system for two floors is a hard ask here.
Read it