This is the season of big changes in NNY. Especially in the world of weather. For the next few days we will have temps above normal and it will even be a bit humid. Medium Range Forecast models then indicate a brief period of normal temperatures through the end of September. And then comes the first week of Ocotber. Highs look to be only in the low to mid 50s with overnight lows in the middle 30s. That's 20 degrees cooler than today.

It's not just NNY making the trip into fall. In fact, in western and central Colorado they are leap frogging fall and plunging right into early winter. Cold air is being pulled down on the back side of a low pressure system and snow is a good possiblity. The folks in Pueblo and Colorado Springs will only have highs around the freezing mark for the next little while.

As Coloradans make snow angels, the northwesterners are beach bound. They should have record and near record highs in many parts of Washington and Oregon. Highs that may touch the 90 degree mark.

So...isn't it strange to have snow and wicked cold weather neighboring sunny and swelteringly hot weather? Is this global warming and global cooling all at once? Has the climate gone completely haywire? Have we finally boarded that famous handbasket to Hades? The answer is... probably not. It's simply fall in the middle latitudes. This is the region which experiences the most radical seasonal changes on the planet. And we happen to live in the middle latitudes.

Wildly fluctuating temps and weather conditions in a relatively small geographic area is interesting, but not unusual when you live on a big moving ball, so don't worry about it. It's been a steady occurrence for 4 1/2 billion years. Give or take a few million.

BTW, no blog tomorrow. I'll be away, but I'll be back Thursday with answers to your questions in another installment of I WAS WONDERING.