Climate of Phoenix, Arizona

The purpose of this publication is to provide comprehensive data on the climate of Phoenix. It is hoped that these data will help residents, visitors, prospective residents, agriculturalists, engineers, community planners, Chambers of Commerce, the movie industry, etc., make more skillful decisions affecting their lives, their plans for the future, and hence the whole economy of the area. Data in this revision are for the period January 1, 1896 through December 31, 1995. This marks 100 years of continuous weather records for Phoenix. Robert J. Schmidli and Austin Jamison. "July 1996." First printed in April 1969 as WR-38; revised and reprinted as WR-177, March 1983 and December 1986. 1996 NWS (National Weather Service) WR (Western Region) Library Public Domain 1931