US,+Arizona

Howdy from sunny Glendale, Arizona!



We live in the Sonoran Desert. The Giant Saguaro is unique to our desert. Our weather is absolutely beautiful this time of year. This week the daytime temperature is in the low seventies and the nighttime temperature is in the mid-forties. Very few of us own coats because it seldom gets below 50 degrees in the winter. We can play outside almost every day. We don't get much rain in the winter either. Lots of older people spend their winters in our city because of our beautiful weather. Of course, our summers are much different! Our days in the summer can get up to 115 degrees and higher. During the months of July - September we have our summer monsoons. We can get serious dust storms and there is usually lots of thunder and lightning, too. It rains fast and hard and because the ground is so dry, we can have flooding.

Glendale, Arizona is part of the Valley of the Sun which includes Phoenix (our state capital), Scottsdale, Peoria, Tempe, Chandler, and Mesa. Our school is called Legend Springs and it has grades K-6. We are in 2nd grade and have been studying weather patterns so this project has been lots of fun for us and has given us great information about weather around the world!

 Flying kites on our playground. Our weather in January is warm enough to wear shorts!