I've Been Cold Before

This must be why folks move to Arizona.

For a few days now the temperature has hovered between barely survivable and colder-than-anyone-remembers.

The minus 30 something I woke to this morning was a rerun of yesterday’s bitter cold. It’s been even colder in other parts of the state and I take solace in that. It’s seldom the case.

Living on the Hi-line I’ve grown accustomed to the cold. I dress for it, donning long johns in October and not taking them off until spring, which up here means May. By then they usually need a wash.

What I suspect makes this current spate of unreasonably cold weather...