>>2649892The Davis mountains are a sky island and are not surrounded by high elevation terrain. Even the sky islands in Southern AZ and NM attain higher average snowfalls, rainfall, and larger high elevation terrain. And the sky islands are the hottest montane environments in AZ and NM. The Arizona-New Mexico transition zone plateau and mountains average 5-6,000 ft below the rim and 7-8,000 ft above the rim for hundreds of miles, which is a high elevation surrounded landscape. W TX is the LOWEST COMMON DENOMINATOR when it comes to temperate montane environments in the US across every metric and statistically has the LEAST bragging rights over it. Pic related is 5,800 ft on a *south* facing slope (and not in a canyon, also still in the freezing season in April, also has some of the largest Rocky Mountain Elk in the US), avg max high around 85F, avg winter low around 22F, avg 22 inches of annual precipitation and 25 inches of snowfall, at 34N in AZ. If I travel less than 10 linear miles from that pic the elevation reaches 7500 ft on a flat plateau (not in a canyon), max avg high is 81F, avg low is 18F, annual precipitation becomes 24 inches, annual snowfall 100 inches. There are multiple mountain locations in AZ-NM-UT-CO that have never hit 87F, my previous list was for brevity and there are hundreds of other stations I can grab data from.
