Climate for Last Year - 2021

 The Climate of Tucson for 2021 showed some interesting results

This is the one everybody loves - temperature months 1-12 and hour of the day (Military 24 hour clock)

92 days (25%) of our days were in the 90's°F. 72 Day's were above a hundred. every single day had a lest 10 MPH wind speed. And the best part 312 days of zero rain - got to love that!

You can see here the winds during a typical day are strongest from 2 p.m. (14 hour) to 4 p.m. (16 hour)

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This one just tells me where our wind was coming from

The Dew Point tells us how much water the atmosphere has soaked up. You can really tell the monsoons started in July and ended in September (Blue band shows lots of moisture in the air).

This graph is showing the high and low temps during a single day. It is interesting the higher temperature days also have typically a low temperature differential. This can be explained by cloud cover. Cloud cover here in southern Arizona moderates the highs but does trap in what heat does make it through is trapped and keeps the lows from dipping too low.

2022 Wind Direction by Time

2022 Wind Direction By Run

Grants Peek Attempted

 Nature's ability to Persevere is phenomenal  - Saguaro hugging the rock wall that was so vertical and jagged I could not climb it

Destination Top of Gates Mountain

The trail up the mountain

A friend along the way

The ledge that stopped me but not the Saguaro 

The ledge stopped ascent but not the views

Apparently, I was not the only one who liked the view

The trail home is located on the left of the left mountain (Little Cat Mountain - Big Cat Mountain is on the right). My hike home goes behind little and emerges in between little and big ravine

The trail home

Some Mule Deer to keep me company on the hike back home

And finally, a crested saguaro on the final leg of the hike

Total hike Distance 10.29 miles

Pena Blanco Lake & Tumacacori

 Pena Blanco lake was a very nice hike finished off with a visit to Tumacacori National Monument - By the way this is more of an artsy "I like some of the photos that may bore you" post.

AWESOME

Great Friends Great Day

Three Ducks Two Legs

Lake Ripples

Tanque Verde Falls Hike

Water let alone waterfalls is not something normally associated with the desert but when you find it - well it is pretty special.

(Yes since every hike usually involves some kind of aircraft flying overhead so I give you the proverbial desert aircraft photo)