« Reply #3849 on: June 23, 2020, 01:47:16 PM »
Isn't much of New Mexico at higher elevations? Phoenix and Tucson are pretty low-lying places. That could make a big difference in Winter.
My in-laws used to have a place in Show Low AZ to escape to in the summers, in the mountains. You couldn't be up there in the winter if you don't like winter. Now they just hunker down in Chandler all summer.
Yeah, the elevation makes a huge difference. I am in St George Utah which is about 3000 feet. In may there was still snow atop the great mountain north of town. In the valley we were already swimming and boating.
Mesquite Nevada is just south of us, but at 1000 feet it is always about ten degrees hotter. The town just north of us, Cedar City, is at 5000 feet, and is always about ten degrees cooler.
The Grand Canyon is nearby, and the ranger said that the top had a climate similar to BC Canada, while the bottom has a tropical, equatorial climate. The Natives used to grow crops at all different levels in order to take advantage of the various climates therein.
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