The weather in Lubbock, Texas has been really strange. Last Saturday, January 25, 2014, the temperature was 64° F. We have since had a cold front. Check this out http://www.srh.noaa.gov/data/obhistory/KLBB.html at 1:53 AM on January 29, 2014, the temperature in Lubbock was 15° F. At 3:53 PM on January 30, .2014, 26 hours later, the temperature was 76° F. That is a 61° change.
Today, it was warmer when I went to work this morning, at 46° degrees about 7:53 AM than it is was at 7:53 PM at 40°.
We are expecting, with this cold front, the possibility of some precipitation. We always need precipitation. Even when we are having flash flooding, we need precipitation. Because the water goes away so quickly.
But the temperature change affects people. Folks are more susceptible to respiratory infections. Especially when the temperature changes are accompanied with strong winds, as these changes have been. The strong winds bring in dust, and stir up other contaminants that cause sinus or bronchial infections. I am subject to that: usually it starts with sinus drainage. Then a cough, then bronchial infection. Sometimes it proceeds into laryngitis. I do not feel bad, but it is more difficult to breathe, and it tires me out. I do not have a fever. I just sound bad.
All of this, because of weather change. I am not the only one. It is a way of life in West Texas.
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