The city of Tempe is an inner suburb located between Phoenix and the rest of the East Valley. It’s situated in the Salt River Valley near the northern edge of the Sonoran Desert, and the Salt River, which runs west through the northern part of Tempe, is dammed in two places to create Tempe Town Lake. As a desert, summers are extremely hot and winters are cool—the average high temperature in mid-November is in the 60s and low is in the 50s with lower relative humidity.
“I think the time of year is really great for being in Arizona, and it’s a nice place to visit,” Hichens says. “Really the worst part of the whole day is the beginning because it can be really cold in the morning, and the thought of being cold and then jumping in the water—it’s a tough feeling.”
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