From Judy Hedding,
Your Guide to Phoenix.
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People love weather statistics! Here in the desert Southwest, the weather can get pretty exciting. If it snows, it's amazing! If it heats up to 122 degrees, like it did on June 26, 1990, we talk about it for years to come. If the monsoon storms kick up those high winds and dust and flash floods, we get a bit apprehensive. For the most part, though, our weather is fairly predictable. It will be sunny today. Ho hum. Our TV weather guys and gals don't get a lot of variety!

We do have four seasons here in the Phoenix area. We have cool (northerners call it winter), we have perfect, we have summer, and we have more summer. Okay, those are not official seasons--I just made them up. But they pretty much describe our weather cycle.

Here are some popular days of the year that people come to visit the Valley of the Sun. I've included the average high temperature, the average low temperature and the chance of rain. Please remember that these are averages! There have been and will continue to be aberrations. Also, these are temperatures for Phoenix. Most of our official weather is measured at Sky Harbor International Airport in downtown Phoenix. Bear in mind that outlying areas of Greater Phoenix may see slightly cooler average temps than these; variances may be up to 5 to 7 degrees.

New Year's Day
Average High Temperature: 65
Average Low Temperature: 40
Chance of Rain: 11%

President's Day
Average High Temperature: 71
Average Low Temperature: 45
Chance of Rain: 16%

Easter Sunday
Average High Temperature: 82
Average Low Temperature: 54
Chance of Rain: 9%

Memorial Day
Average High Temperature: 97
Average Low Temperature: 67
Chance of Rain: 2%

Independence Day
Average High Temperature: 106
Average Low Temperature: 78
Chance of Rain: 7%

Labor Day
Average High Temperature: 101
Average Low Temperature: 76
Chance of Rain: 15%

Halloween
Average High Temperature: 82
Average Low Temperature: 54
Chance of Rain: 11%

Thanksgiving Day
Average High Temperature: 71
Average Low Temperature: 46
Chance of Rain: 13%

Christmas Day
Average High Temperature: 65
Average Low Temperature: 41
Chance of Rain: 15%