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.
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 