Random spring snowstorms can delay planting, cause muddy calving pens, bring bugs and just mean overall soggy land until the temperatures heat up. Spring, which we lovingly call mud season, has challenges and difficulties all its own. With winter, people dread battling the biting cold and windchills, constantly digging out waterers and vehicles from snowstorms, and otherwise being cold for four months straight. But I think that each season has things that make us both appreciate and dread those conditions. I think part of the reason for this is our appreciation for the reprieve in the weather.Įveryone can be negative sometimes about winter, especially here in the Northern Plains.
A 60-degree day in the fall always feels colder than a 60-degree day in the spring. Usually, at the first sign of chilly weather in the fall, we’re digging out our winter wardrobe and making sure our ice scrapers are in our cars. I got to thinking during those few nice days though, about how much we were taking advantage of the nice weather. Even though the -30 windchills are never fun, there’s nothing like the quiet crunch of snow under your boots, or the feeling of a still morning when it snowed the night before. I’m a Northerner through and through, and love winter as much as the summer. I spent that entire warm weekend outside, roping in the sunshine, getting chores done, fixing fences and otherwise trying to soak in the last bits of fall before the seasons fully change. Something I think those of us in the North will never pass up are those last few days of summer weather before winter settles in. In the weeks before that first snow and freezing rain, we had colder temperatures and frosty mornings, but nothing that screamed “Winter is coming.” That weekend before the snow first flew though? We had 75-degree-F temperatures and plenty of sunshine. We recently got our first snow and freezing rain of the season here in Bismarck, which gave us all a taste of what’s to come. What else would we talk about in North Dakota if not about the weather? North Dakota is known for a few things to people who have never visited - our college football team (Go Bison!) and having cold winters. As fall moves into winter, take the time to appreciate what we have before its gone.
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