After slogging through torrential rain yesterday, I awoke this morning to bright sunshine and rather cool temperatures (mid 50s F) on the Great Plains; in fact, weather reports indicated that it was only 45 degrees F in northwest Kansas. Of course, I was now behind the cold front as I drove west across the High Plains. The air was crystal clear and the windmills indicated that a northwest breeze was still in progress.
At the Colorado border, a band of clouds appeared across the distant, southwest horizon, clearly representing the back edge of the cool, atmospheric trough. By the time I reached Limon, however, the winds had shifted from the northeast, suggesting that this pool of autumn weather was drifting eastward and would not offer relief much longer.
Nevertheless, it was sunny and 70 degrees F when I drove onto our Littleton farm. Due to continued, intermittent rain, the landscape remains green, looking more like May than August. That verdancy will soon be tested as we expect sunny, hot weather for the next ten days.
