Weather swings

Today I wore a jacket to work for the first time in weeks. Unusual cold snap, I said to myself. Then I thought back.

In college in the 1970s, I usually wore a jacket to early morning classes until Memorial Day weekend.

In the 1980s, I noticed we had frost where I lived up to the first full week of May.

It's been a long time since I scraped frost from a windshield in May. I wonder which is the unusual weather, that of the 1970s and early 1980s or that today.

On the same subject, I don't recall many 15-below nights when I was growing up in the 1960s. We had some in the 1970s and 1980s, and I can recall maybe three in the 1990s. We haven't had one of those for a while, for which I am very grateful.