AZDana

Despite common sentiment, there is a lot of variety to the weather here in Arizona and I would love to dispel the rumors that the seasons here are nicknamed “hot, really hot, super hot, and inferno”.

I think that I may have found the perfect venue to talk about our local climate. I just need to enter the weather video challenge . I could become famous by showcasing my weather forecasting talents. If I win, I might even be considered some sort of weather guru by my friends and neighbors. If I don’t want to record myself, I could make a forecast with a mash up of some of their videos and use that to display my creativity and knowledge of my local climate.

I could talk about the rainy monsoon season, and explain that Arizona isn’t always a “dry heat” and that we do get our fair share of summer humidity. I also think everyone would be surprised to find out that there’s enough snow in northern Arizona during the winter to support a thriving skiing industry. I would be thrilled to prove to the skeptics that we do experience a variety of precipitation here.

Then again, I could talk what it was like in Phoenix on June 26, 1990. That was the day the official thermometer reached its highest recorded temperature of 122 degrees and I was here to survive experience it. (That’s 50 in Celsius, if anyone’s wondering.) Come to think of it, maybe the most accurate way to describe that day is “inferno”, because it was it was indescribably hot. Thankfully, it doesn’t get that hot every year, and our average high temperature is only 107 F. Summer nights are usually in the 80s, which is practically sweater weather around here.