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Valley temps drop; severe weather hits Flagstaff (click here)
Mike Branom, Tribune
The rain didn't fall on Sunday, but the mercury certainly did. A very cold yet dry storm rolling through Arizona brought near-record cold temperatures and scattered showers.
The Valley's official high was 63 degrees - 13 below average and five above the all-time lowest high of 58.
Other highs reported were 59 degrees in east Mesa and Chandler, 58 in Scottsdale and 57 at Mesa's Falcon Field.
The chilly weather represented a drop of 20-plus degrees from late last week.
Also, the cold was made worse by wind gusts reaching 25 mph.
Coincidentally, Sunday marked the one-year anniversary of the warmest March 16 in Valley history. The high of 99 came within one degree of breaking the mark for Phoenix's earliest 100-degree day, set March 26, 1988....
