Phenomena

If you have more then one phenomenon, you have phenomena. At The Homestead, we've had two in as many days. Yesterday it was the snow; today it is the temperature. When I left the house for work, the thermometer said minus eight. By the time I passed Paragonah on the freeway, the car thermometer said minus 28. Twenty-eight below zero on December 5th? I won't say it has never happened, but it has certainly never been recorded. In fact, the low temperature record for this day at the Cedar City airport was set in 1972 at minus five. Today, 41 years later, the Cedar City airport reached minus 18, beating the old record by a whopping 13 degrees. The other thing is that we've gone through this already during 2013. In January, we had a record cold snap that took us to minus 22. I honestly didn't think we'd see that again, maybe ever. But now we've beaten it, and it isn't even January yet.