>>2790142Learn to geography, it's a foreign subject for 75% of the US (only 25% of the US is mountainous using the 2k ft definition, only 12% is using the 3k ft definition, all western).
It hits 122F (50C) every single summer in western and SW AZ, and it hits -25F (-32C) every single winter in at least four (4) separate locations in northern and central AZ every single winter (Kaibab plateau, Coconino plateau volcanics, Mogollon plateau HPs, and the White Mountains of E AZ).
Arizona has no less than four (4) separate plateaus (all sub-plateaus of the Colorado plateau) that are over 8,000 ft (2500m) elevation for tens of linear miles and that cover thousands of square miles of area.
AZ geographically has the best of all worlds in regards to geology, it has uplifted massive plateaus, the largest volcanic fields in the nation (3 of them separately covering more than 1k sq mi each), tectonically uplifted middle elevation sharp pointy mountains, and hilly country in 9 different biomes.
The plateaus get very cold, and the uplifted edges of them are very snowy (minimum of 100 inches/2.54 m of average snowfall across thousands of sq miles of land).
Williams, AZ and Greer, AZ (also Pinetop-Lakeside) are on opposite sides of the state roughly and the land between them following the Rim is a continuous zone above 6,600 ft elevation, the lowest snowfall zones in between them still average about 25-30 inches (0.7m). AZ has 111 mountain peaks higher than 9,000 ft (2700m). It's sharpest and most challenging peaks are all mid-range, 5,000-10,000 ft. Its volcanics are cake walks.
Pic related is the central Mogollon Rim in winter. A location near this image averages 80 inches (2m) of snowfall a winter at only 5,600 ft (1700m) ASL. Rivers and creeks emerge out of the bottom of the Rim.
