Sedona has its own weatherman, Silver Bear. He reports via his own website and records weather for AccuWeather.com’s Sedona listing, too.

Sedona’s weather is fantastic. The common rule of thumb is that Sedona’s daytime temperature high will be 8-10 degrees cooler than Phoenix and 5-10 degrees warmer than Flagstaff. The variable between night and day temps in Sedona is commonly 25 – 30 degrees so in Summer we get wonderful relief even after a blazing day. Sure, we hit a record high of almost 113 F degrees a few summers ago, however the accompanying night had a low in the 80’s. Over the years I’ve seen it sunny and 70 degrees on Christmas day as well as 28 degrees and snowing another year. Don’t go by the Chamber of Commerce’s “average temps”. They don’t account for the true highs and lows of each month. Go to SilverBear’s website and look through the archives for accurate accounting. In 1999 over a period of three days, April 1, 2, and 3, it snowed a total of almost 15”. A few days later it was sunny and in the mid-70’s. Sedona’s weather changes quickly, but not so quickly that you cannot plan your day or week appropriately.

SilverBear's Weather Report
www.sedonaweather.net

Silverbear's weather page is very user-friendly and has good statistics. He reports from his home in West Sedona which gives more accurate overall Sedona temperatures and rainfall measurements than the Forest Service which reports from their Brewer Road location near Oak Creek. Their temperature stats run consistently cooler than West Sedona due to the cooling effect of being near the creek.

USGS Arizona Current Water Flow – Oak Creek Real Time Data
http://waterdata.usgs.gov/az/nwis/uv?09504420

Our tax dollars at work …in a nice way. Go here to see actual real-time water flow data on Oak Creek. The data is quoted in cubic feet/second (cfs).

Imagine the flow of the Colorado River heading down Oak Creek Canyon! To give you a comparison, the releases measured at Lee’s Ferry, just a few miles below Glen Canyon dam, have averaged between 20,000 cfs and 45,000 cfs over the last ten years. This is the put-in location for Grand Canyon rafting companies. Oak Creek’s historical record (peak flow) in the last 22 years, was 23,200 cfs on 19.Feb.1993. That’s the equivalent of the current average size of the Colorado River. It was an amazing flood. The Hwy 179 bridge over Oak Creek adjacent to Tlaquepaque was closed for a night and National television crews were entrenched with live cameras on site. I walked out on the bridge that evening and could feel it shake as large trees in the swift current rammed into the bridge. On the downside of the bridge, the water came within 18” of the parking lot at Tlaquepaque and actually did flood the lower shopping level and parking lot.