Why does Arizona have such a fast weather change?

was thinking it was a good time to plaint seeds and flowers 80 tepts now in the 50's feels like snow.

Why does Arizona have such a fast weather change?
Well you see, temperatures don't change much more than one or two degrees as a yearly average. That's what decides of our climate. But within a month, a week or day, temperatures change wildly depending on so many different factors. if, for example, you have a high pressure west of your position, and a low pressure east, it will pump polar air in your region. If the opposite, it will pump tropical air masses. All this is rather attenuated by big bodies of water like the oceans but ... while I live in Norway and don't know much about Arizona, I think you have a typical continental climate; it changes fast. Good luck with your flowers. Whatever it looks now, springtime will come!
Reply:Because there is a low pressure system in the southwest right now that is causing 50 degree temperatures. I am in Surprise Arizona right now for Spring Break with my girlfriend
Reply:My stepdad lives in Tucson, and he warned me not to try to plow or chop desert soil. If I wanted to plant anything in his yard, I had to learn a different way, because, whatever soil I loosened, the summer monsoons would come and wash entirely away. (Monsoons, I thought? I could barely fathom what he said, at the time, but he was right.)


I found out that deserts areas get nearly as much rain as lots of other places, but the problem is, they are ecologically unstable to begin with. The theory goes that nowhere on Earth, before man'sdeforestation and destruction reared its ugly head, were ever deserts. Deserts got that way by weather extremes caused by the increasing lack of plants causing erosion, and etc.
Reply:I talked to my sister who lives in Phoenix thisa.m. she told me the high today would only be in the 70's although a week or so ago it was in the 80's. Since I'm going there on Tuuesday She figured it would be back up into the 80's but they don't want really hot weather too soon or 100 won't be far behind which can make for an extremely hot summer.