
Every year, Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers host their January Jam in Puerto Peñasco. It is a long weekend of music, partying, food and drink. However, this year, Rocky Point has also been home to a January 2025 Cold Jolt. These two events couldn’t be more different.
The Jam offers good music. Meanwhile, the January 2025 Cold Jolt features the sounds of howling winds. And that water just looks cold, doesn’t it? In addition, you won’t find much outdoor partying. On the other hand, you will see people walking briskly with their heads down hoping to reach more cozy conditions.
Good morning! The hallway felt like a winter wind tunnel walking from the elevator to my Sonoran Sun 510 East condo. My phone showed it was 42 degrees with a wind chill of 34! I laughed thinking, I came to Rocky Point to escape this.
Barren Sandy Beach

Nonetheless, it is winter after all. This is the slow time of year in Puerto Peñasco. We expect less people in our town driven by tourism. And truth be told, I love the off-season here.
I also believe in the power of gratitude and practice it daily. This is relevant because Rocky Point’s beautiful, certified-clean Sandy Beach looks like a barren stretch of undiscovered land. Therefore, gratitude shows it is important to realize it could be worse. In fact, we know this because it is now a whole lot worse on other beaches.
Popular spots such as Myrtle Beach, South Carolina are feeling blasted by the January 2025 Cold Jolt. Shockingly, more than a dozen people lost their lives in the worst winter conditions in decades in the Southeast United States. Arguing over global warming is temporarily frozen.
Frosty in Florida

Take a good look at this picture. Unless you are well over 50 years old, you haven’t seen a white covering on Pensacola Beach. Frosty the Snowman made an even more shocking visit in other parts of the Florida Panhandle. The region got more than a dusting of snow. It got whacked with serious accumulation. The average snow total there is 8.9. That is more than triple the snowfall of the panhandle’s historic storm of 1895.
WOW.
Sonoran Sun Winter Scene

Granted, it isn’t sitting by a warm fire watching snow fall. However, I’m grateful because this Sonoran Sun winter scene courtesy of the January 2025 Cold Jolt is pretty cool.
We don’t often see working shrimp boats right off our beautiful beachfront resort. They are so close right now you could use a kayak to buy fresh shrimp from them. Even better, if the shrimp boats have a kayak, they could deliver while you enjoy the Sonoran Sun Resort heated pool.
Back to reality. The Sonoran Sun winter scene is because the weather is even colder miles out on the Sea of Cortez. As a result, the shrimp boats are in really close to our shore. (You see them more often off the coast by the malecon).
Furthermore, I’m watching the winds impacting their work just offshore. I dare not consider the unpleasant conditions right now for a shrimp boat on the Sea of Cortez deeper waters.