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        Cloudy with light rain early...then becoming partly cloudy. Low around 45F. Winds light and variable. Chance of rain 90%.

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    Poppies blooming now!

    • Feb 9, 2016
    • Feb 9, 2016 Updated Mar 22, 2018
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    Gold poppy wildflowers blooming on February 9 -- six weeks before spring -- along Picture Rocks Road in Saguaro National Park west of Tucson. Video by Doug Kreutz, Arizona Daily Star.

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