It's the sudden dramatic change in conditions that really hits hard, at least as much as the actual temperature itself. On the news yesterday they were saying that parts of Texas would likely experience a temperature drop of
sixty degrees in 6 hours!!!
That's a bigger temperature swing, in only a quarter of one day, than many places experience over the course of a year!
Good news here, looks like by Xmas day we are going to be 30+ degrees in the opposite direction.
Simlar for us here; almost all the way up to freezing a day or two after Xmas. Yeehaw!
The Weather Network was showing a map of Canada, with severe weather warnings and alerts and much doom-and-glooming visible from coast to coast...and in the middle, an oasis of calm air and pleasant conditions...the only province that wasn't festooned with red arrows and lightning bolts and exclamation points and skulls-and-crossbones...was Manitoba!
My wife and I, despite being only a few days from Xmas, were guilty of some decidedly un-Christian smugness and chortling.