What I Love and Hate about Spring in El Paso

What I Love and Hate about Spring in El Paso

Hi, my name is John Peña. In this episode, we're going to talk about a couple of things that I love and hate about spring in El Paso. Hi, my name is John Peña of Peña El Paso Realty Group. If you are looking to buy or sell a home in El Paso, please consider reaching out to us. And in this

episode, I just want to talk real quick about kind of some of the things I love about spring and then a couple of things that I don't love about spring in El Paso. And primarily, I'm talking about weather. And yes, we've talked about weather before, but more on a kind of broad general basis. Let's talk just

about spring. We're talking basically March, April, May. Okay, and if I might, let me start out with a little story. So, Leah's father and wife are visiting. Now, they live in northern Minnesota. I lived in Wisconsin, so I know how this story goes. But, they're down to visit and essentially, they feel as if

they've sort of been locked in the house for the last, you know, five to six months because the weather up there can be so drastically cold. If that is your life, you know, then you know what we're talking about. When I lived in Wisconsin, sometimes, well March, it was still cold. April, still probably cold. Maybe it was

getting nice. And then in May, okay, usually it's starting to get nice, right? But, it feels like winter is like never-ending. It's like it's never going to end, right? It might have started getting cold back in September, October, and now it's like November, December, January, February, March, April, and it's

just like, ugh, okay? So, seasonal affective disorder, right? This plagues a lot of folks in those types of climates. And so, what I do love about the springtime in El Paso is the weather. I mean, it's unbelievable. So, let me prove it. So, here are some screenshots of the weather app that I took like five

minutes ago. So, currently right now in El Paso, now it's about 730 in the morning. This is a great time of day. It's gorgeous. The birds are out. It's beautiful. So, it was about 56 degrees, and that's just a couple degrees above the low, which was about 54. Today, the high is going to be about 80, okay? You can see

that, essentially, we had tomorrow is going to be a high of 80, Monday 79, Tuesday 81, but then it's going to start getting hotter, right? Come like Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, it's all the way up to 90 already. So, what I've been trying to talk about is how in El Paso, springtime is almost like other people's

like early summer. If I would have had this type of weather in Wisconsin in April, I would have been shocked, right? I would have been like, summer is coming early, because that is exactly what it feels like. The great thing I think about us, though, is that basically every springtime is feeling like, you

know, early summer to most folks in other climates. Air quality, pretty good right now. Air quality is something that I do want to talk about in the future, because, you know, in the last episode I talked about water. Where are we going to get our water from? Yes, I started this channel because I'm a real estate agent

and I was looking to, you know, find relocating buyers that might be considering a move and then hopefully be their real estate agent. And we started this channel so that we can connect with people in El Paso, so that if they want to sell their home, we might be the folks they go to. So, at the same time, though, I

don't want to sugarcoat it. My primary mission has always been to give you as much value as humanly possible, and that means being honest with you. So, when we were talking about water last week, honesty. Air quality, let's be honest. A couple of weeks ago, we went on that trip to Mexico, right? We flew out of Juarez,

flew into Mexico City, and on to our destination. When we were in Mexico City, I should have taken a picture. I was in shock. I didn't think about it. When we were in Mexico City, the amount of air pollution and smog in Mexico City is unbelievable. I mean, it's really, it's very, very noticeable. I mean, it, it is

something. Now, some people have asked about air quality here in El Paso. In Juarez, just a little bit that way, sometimes the air quality is not that great, and if we get winds that are strong enough from the south, well, guess what? It's gonna blow that air into El Paso, right? Now, I would not say that

that's a common occurrence. I guarantee you I'll do future episodes about it, but what we do have, and this brings me to what I don't like about spring, what we do have in El Paso in like kind of March, April, it seems to be about the worst, is it's windy season. Some people even go as far to call it monsoon season, which I

think is a little, a little bit of a stretch, but fair enough. Basically, in March and April, it gets windy. You know, weather patterns are changing, and if the wind, you know, gets going, we're in a desert, right? So, what's, what's gonna blow around in the desert if it's windy? Dirt, pollen, more dirt, more pollen. So,

that's not, that's not very pleasant. Is it necessarily unsafe? I don't think so. Yesterday, we had, it was pretty windy here, and now today, already, we've got air quality of good. I should have checked yesterday when it was windy, and I will, but it's more of a, of an inconvenience, and just kind of makes everything kind

of dusty and dirty. You know, your car is gonna be covered. It's gonna be dusty and dirty. If you, which we sometimes do, if you leave your doors open, because it's, the weather outside is great, and you're like, oh, there's a nice breeze, the weather's unbelievable, but it's windy, well, guess what? Dust is gonna blow into

your house. So, those are just a couple of things that I kind of love and hate about weather, you know, at least springtime in El Paso, but honestly, you know, I'll take a couple of windy days for this type of weather in, you know, March and April, any day, because I've experienced the other side of it, having

lived up north in some different types of climate, climates. The other thing, you know, you're like, well, there's other places that have nice weather in March and April. Yeah, you're absolutely right. Florida, I, we most recently came from Florida. Right now in Florida, it's probably about the same temperature.

Here's the difference. Right now, I think the humidity is about 28%, which is pretty high, actually. In Florida right now, I'm gonna guess, I don't know, I'm gonna guess the humidity is like 80% or more, so the dry heat makes a big difference, because I can sit out here all day in this shirt, and it's not,

I'm not gonna sweat and be, you know, disgusting. Now, if I go out and sit in the sun at three o'clock, well, then I'm gonna sweat, but if I'm in the shade, I'm good, right? In Florida, I could wear this shirt in the shade, and I guarantee you, I'll be sweating. I'll have like the the sweat mustache. I've had that a million

times from living there and in Houston. So, you know, it's different. So, if warmer weather is kind of what you're looking for, that's maybe more on the dry side, it's hard to beat El Paso, honestly, and some people are gonna say, oh yeah, well, it gets super hot in the summer. Yeah, totally, absolutely. Yeah, 90 to 100,

sometimes it's gonna go above 100. Still, it's gonna be 90 to 100 in the summer where you are, too. In Sheboygan, in Wisconsin, it would get 90 to 100. So, even if we get a little bit hotter than maybe what you're used to in the summer, I think it balances out when you consider how dry it is. So, anyway, quick

little weather episode. I hope that everybody out there is doing fantastic, and we'll see you next time.