The Weather In Arizona

Hey guys I posted this on another link sorry but I can't find it now NUTS My Mare Sweets spent the last 18 months that she was in the U.S In Snowflake AZ... I have spent the last 18 months trying to imagine what kind of weather she had been used to All I know about AZ is that it has lots of Desert It has been fun imagining exactly what she had encountered I know she hasn't seen such constant rein but then who has: we are infamous for our rain This winters weather though has been CRAZEE So Guys Please write back with a seasonal weather forcast for AZ I will find it SO fascinating THANKS

Jools, you can check out any weather on the weather channel... First thing I do in the morning is pull up the weather. Well, today I noticed the high is supposed to be 32, feels like 25... ya think? Tonight it's supposed to get down to 20. Now, get this... by next week some time it's going to get to a high of 70 - East Texas weather, I swear. It's fixing to be the time that you wear warm-ups in the morning and by noon, you're peeling to put shorts on.

I've been to Phoenix quite a bit, and in the winter, it's super cold, or at least it is to me. In the summer, it can get up to 105 plus, but you don't sweat - kind of feels like you can't breathe, but you can.

Dallas is oh, about 130 miles straight west of me, and because it's flat over there, it's always colder than it is here, sometimes up to 20 degrees - I guess because we have hills and trees.

Tell ya a funny... me and a friend took some horses up to a cattle feedlot up near Amarillo one time, cold, good Lord... got there about midnight, saw this guy - all you could see was his eyes, he said, do you guys want these halters? Heck no, turn 'em out, I'm not getting out! HA! And I didn't. Goodness gracious alive, it was colder than the blue blazes - wind just run straight through ya.

Snowflake is at a much higher elevation than Phoenix, so it doesn't get the extremely high temps on a regular basis like Phoenix and Tucson.

Here's a link that shows you the normal high & low temps for Snowflake by month.

http://www.wmonline.com/cities/snowfcom.htm

Hey Beth THANK~YOU for the link I will study it at length later I have had such fun imagining where she was It is going to be SO to finally KNOW THANKS a bunch for taking the time to post this I'm going to have real fun looking this all up

Ohhhh, snowflake is honestly one of the MOST BEAUTIFUL places in the world, it's in the mountains, a lot of scrub oak, pine, natural creeks and ponds. There are a lot of drop dead gorgeous cliff views there, the salt river runs through the salt river canyon up there, it's just spectacular. The winters get some snow, but not so much to cause the problem, summers are perfect up there, no joke. Only problem I have is that because there are so many pines and scrub oak, there's a lot of bugs. Most of the land up there is part of the Tonto National Forest, so it's all protected and open for horseback riding, walking, even some 4x4 trails to go on. I used to go swimming up there as a kid, there are some spots where you can swim into caves on the sides of mountains, water is so crystal clear you can see the bottom (which is a big deal for me, because I do not swim in water I can not see through, lol). But honestly Jools, your horse has spent the last 18 months in a very beautiful place... hope I painted you a better picture, if I go up there soon, I'll take some pictures for you

Hey Jolese Thank~you so much It sounds Amazing A direct flight to visit Sweets before I bought her was really VERY difficult So I was real brave/CRAZEE I bought her from LOADS of video footage & snaps...Just think if I had of visited I probably wouldn't have come back I now have 'new' & TOTALLY FABULOUS images in my head don't know how but I have even got Yogi sauntering about rifleing through hampers I love the programme 'Medium' I watch EAGERLY in case she goes out to Snowflake sadly it hasn't been on T.V. in a while....Oh thanks so much for the heads up on Snowflake I think I should employ you as my Weather & Sunshine conditions in Snowflake person... What Do You Say

Spring is acomin' here in the U.K.... How's it shaping up in Snowflake Silverbucklehorses Next week will be atellin' will it be a 'Lion' Or A 'Lamb'