I remember that before I moved down to Phoenix, a buddy of mine told me that it was a dry heat...I said back, well, so is a branding iron. PHX was never very cold, but in not that far away Globe it gets below zero. And they have snow skiing in Flagstaff. But I will never forget one stretch where we had 6 or 8 straight months without precipitation. As a native of rain slicked Portland, Oregon I almost was pulling for it to rain! I will say this much abut the greater PHX area: if you're outside for more than 10 minutes your morning shower was for not...