We lost our momentum...Haven't work on Halloween for a month

[jadewik]

Mike-
It snows a lot in Flagstaff.... so much that I've heard some NAU students majored in snowboarding... (more because they were hitting the slopes instead of attending classes). I've never made it up to Flag for the Snowbowl.

Spooky-
I knew what you meant. Those storms are best viewed when at home. I heard on the news during one of the P-town storms in the 1990's that a couple people caught riding bikes in one of the dust storms/thunderstorms had to get cactus spines removed because the wind blew pieces of Cholla into their arm. Those things are dangerous enough when they're not blowing around.

[iHaunt]

Anyone seen the news about the dust storm in AZ?

[Pumpkin_Man]

Jade, I heard something to that affect about the snow in Flagstaff. If I'm not mistaken, it's the only place where it actualy does snow in AZ.

As for the dust stormes, I hear that's common place in many desert regions.

Mike

[jadewik]

Anyone seen the news about the dust storm in AZ?

Yes. I've actually been in Phoenix for storms like that before. Nothing like watching a giant wall of dust blow into town.

Mike- It snows other places in the state too. I have a photo of snow from here in Tucson from a couple years back. It also snowed once this winter as well. Granted, it's not often it snows in the lower elevations, but that doesn't mean it doesn't happen. =)

[Spookymufu]

Yes. I've actually been in Phoenix for storms like that before. Nothing like watching a giant wall of dust blow into town.

Mike- It snows other places in the state too. I have a photo of snow from here in Tucson from a couple years back. It also snowed once this winter as well. Granted, it's not often it snows in the lower elevations, but that doesn't mean it doesn't happen. =)

people drive like idiots when it isnt snowing in Az, I can imagine how they drive when it does snow....egad!

[iHaunt]

It looks like smoky cloud.

[Pumpkin_Man]

Interesting

[johnsoneliza52]

Having lived here most of my life..I'll just say..

NORMAL

[Murfreesboro]

Anyone ever been in New Mexico before? How was the weather there?

My family is really into Boy Scouts, and all of us have vacationed at Philmont Scout Ranch in NE New Mexico (near Cimarron). My sons have both been there twice. When I was there, in mid-June, the temp was in the mid-90s during the day, but it felt much cooler to me because the heat was incredibly dry. We were sleeping in tents, and there was one night when it got so cold, because it had just snowed in the Colorado Rockies (which you could barely see in the distance). Lots of wind down off those mountains.

If you go up onto Urraca Mesa (memorialized by Louis L'Amour in The Haunted Mesa), you can look east and see the flat-topped mesas of the high desert. If you look west, you see the forested mountains of ski resorts like Taos. The TV mini-series Lonesome Dove was filmed at Philmont, I suppose because of the variety of Western terrain there. It is a pretty high elevation, too--above 6000 feet at the base camp, higher if you go on the back-country hikes.

I saw one dust storm during the 3 1/2 years I lived in Killeen, TX (Central TX).