Barely a week ago we were still in the 80s. This week, winter. Now, we always seem to run into an early cold snap in the fall, but we kind of like to ease into it. You know, after a few weeks of being in the 60s and 50s. But after a long, dry summer with almost no rain and an unusually hot September (average temperature for us was 84° this September vs. 76° in September 2008, or 29° C vs. 24° C), we were hankering for some cool, wet fall weather. Except we skipped a season and went straight to winter.
Our friends to the south of us in Colorado had some winter weather last week, but this week they're going to be in the 60s and 50s … so maybe we'll get to enjoy some true fall weather at some point ourselves. In the meantime, the National Weather Service is forecasting a low of 5° (-15° C) for us Friday night and 4° on Saturday night.
This is actually quite a problem, because the horses have not grown out their winter coats yet. They've started, but they are a long way from being done. That means we'll need to bring them all in from pasture so they can hang out in the barns during this cold blast.
Not only are the humans and animals at the ranch not ready for winter, neither are the trees — all of our cottonwoods still have their leaves!
[Just before I posted this, the Weather Service changed the lows for Wednesday and Thursday from 14° and 16° to 11° (-11° C) for both nights … that's headed in the wrong direction, people!]
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