Winter?

[Sailor Steve]

We have a saying in Utah: "If you don't like the weather, wait five minutes - it'll change."

I once joked with my dad that Los Angeles and Salt Lake City should get together. They don't have summer or winter and we don't have spring or fall.

Here in Salt Lake we have fairly hot summers and fairly cold winters, but with rare exceptions neither is ever too extreme. The transitions, though, are sometimes strange. It will be warm and then it will be cold and then it will be warm again, seemingly without rhyme nor reason. It was mostly hot right up until October, when we had a series of storms. After they passed it remained at least 20 degrees fahrenheit cooler than it had been, dropping from the 90s to the 70s. Then we had another set of storms and it dropped to the 50s and stayed there. Then it slowly warmed up again. The nights were cold but the days were still very nice. Yesterday it reached a high of 66. I was out walking around wearing a t-shirt.

Right now it's 37 degrees and snowing. Expected high of 42. I'm not complaining - I like the snow or I wouldn't stay here. I just find it entertaining how variable our weather can be.