Welcome to Fall

I have posted on the weather in Fort Collins before and boy can it be a wild ride.  It was a beautiful fall day in the Fort yesterday.  The leaves have started changing over the past two weeks and we have lots of golds, yellows and a few reds around.  The fall veggies have been showing up at the farmers market and every trip seems like it could be the last chance at red, ripe tomatoes.  There is a crispness in the air.

Yesterday was no exception to the beautiful weather ...until about 5pm and then the wind started blowing and the temperature dropped 20 degrees in about that many minutes.  We all new it was coming but it still does not make it easier.  The college students seem to be the ones to take the brunt of rapid weather changes.  You seem them biking or walking to campus on a warm fall day in shorts, skirts, tank tops, t-shirts, sun glasses just soaking up the rays.  Twenty minutes later those same folks have arms wrapped tightly around themselves, shivering, running, or biking home in a cold wind.  See, when I was an undergraduate, I never checked the weather, and even though today's undergrads have iphones, they don't seem to check the weather either. 

Bottom Line:  This time of year it is always good to be prepared for the quick weather change here in Fort Collins, or at least check the weather to see what may be coming.