There's no place like Arizona, or in "Today" host Savannah Guthrie's case, "home."
"I love the heat -- when you grow up in Arizona you're just used to it," Guthrie said as she remembered her days growing up in Tucson.
Guthrie joined Paul Gerke and Emma Jade on 12 Today from the Today Show set in New York City.
As a kid, she said Arizona's monsoon was always "so exciting."
"In my family we loved to sit out on the porch and just watch the rain come down and see those electrical storms," Guthrie said.
Guthrie said she still gets excited about thunderstorms even in New York because "that's just how we lived."
"We loved it and the desert needs the water and it was always just that relief and that rush," she said. "To me, there's always something magical about the monsoon."
Guthrie said she "had to almost move away to see what a special place it was." Her mom still lives in the house she grew up in. She even got married out here.
"Arizona is a magical place and I always say it's my spiritual home and I feel all my memories in the wind," she said.
The "Today" host said she loves Arizona sunsets, mountains, and she'll "always come home."
"I love it," she said. "Always, always, always. There's something really special about it."