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Our Blue Norther approacheth

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Daytime temp started at 56 degrees this morning. Now, at noon, it’s 42. Our norther approaches. Good thing we have no livestock at the rancho to get under shelter. Only faucets to drip.

Even Mr. Boy, who usually joins his peers in wearing basketball shorts to school in the winter (don’t ask) wore long trousers this morning. Although not jeans. Jeans seem to be passe, here in our version of the Texas burbs. No kickers in sight.

Who knows? Tomorrow, when it’s forecast be in the 30s a.m. with rain and continuing the rest of the daylight hours (before dropping into the 20s overnight with only overcast) he might even wear a coat.

It’s a macho thing, presumably, though I have seen girls his age (thirteen) doing it, too. At my age I wear two layers when its only in the 60s. 😉

Blue Norther

Today, we are promised, will be in the low 80s. Likewise tomorrow. But not Thursday. Daytime Thursday is to drop 20 degrees until nightfall brings an arctic blast that lasts the weekend into next week, plunging daytime temps into the 30s with freezing rain. Or sleet if you want to get technical.

Weather extremes are what Texas is all about, but 50 degrees difference in a few days is pushing it. Must be global warming, as Wormtongue’s hencethings have insisted since at least 2009. They must raise our taxes so they can solve the problem. How? Well, they’ll start off by taking the money and partying ’til they drop.

Happy Days Are Here Again, as the Democrats like to sing.

More likely it could be one of our Blue Northers of song and story. Well known (and feared) on the Texas plains—west and northwest of us here at the rancho—for many years. Their warnings once could be only a few hours at best, sometimes mere minutes. Bringing death to unsheltered livestock and, sometimes, people.

I wonder if we’ll get a rare snow? Freezing rain will be enough to start.