Understanding the nice average climate conditions
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12/13/2019
I have lived in Cactus Flats for 7 years and love climate. Climatology or Metrology, which ever you prefer, is sometimes confusing if one is only looking at temperature without considering humidity, wind, how quickly area heats or cools due to mountains, deserts, water or water bearing plants, etc. I think "Best Places" algorithm or averages don't quite correctly reflect this areas relative year round comfort. Due to low humidity and sunny weather, winter days at 65 degrees are delightful (their 70 to 85 ideal metric should be so adjusted, but would not hold for areas without these characterisrics), i.e., based on U.S. averages, this area should be at least 9 out of 10, not 7.7 in my opinion. Southern latitude, elevation, upper Sonoran location all contribute to this comfortable, temperate climate with relatively short peaks of quite high temps in summer and low night ti.e temps in the Jan and Feb time periods.
David | Safford, AZ