One day we get 80 degrees and high winds,
the next it’s 35 degrees and snowflakes are swirling.
The Iowa weather roller-coaster is really moving!
Another reason to have a good HVAC system.
Once upon some distant time, I thought things were
more, well, static, or frozen in stability.
It was cold in the winter, hot in the summer,
and moderate in the fall and spring.
Then as I grew, developed or paid more attention,
began to notice these wild swings in weather.
Warm or hot early springs, tulips popping up,
then sudden blizzards snap us back to winter.
Summer weather with its nasty severe surprises,
tornadoes and derechos and 8-inch downpours.
Would find myself asking, “It never used to be like this,
did it?” I cannot remember weather being so wild.
We seemed to get long stretches of warm or hot days
in summertime, moderate ones in the fall,
cold and snowy ones in the winter.
Actual temperatures? I never knew or kept track.
Maybe we just didn’t have as much information,
which today we get bombarded with, inundated.
In 1973, the entire state of Iowa got buried from a
freak snowstorm, up to two feet of snow.
The whole state was paralyzed. Snowmobiles became
ambulances. Everything else shut down.
A week later, it had all melted off, and life resumed.
Freaky weather has always been there,
whether anyone realized it or not.
Let’s see, only 10,500 more years until the next ice age.