This will probably go down as the coldest week of the year, and perhaps the coldest week in the past several years. We’ve had several days running of nighttime lows below zero (about 4-5 degrees below) and daytime highs around 10-15. It’s bitter. It’s so cold the snow on my driveway is just like sand. The cats’ water dishes keep freezing over. Poor kitties. They get to sleep in the garage, but they really want to be in the house!

Anyway, it’s supposed to warm up a little every day for the next seven days, but just to the freezing mark by the beginning of next week. I remember when I was at BYU in the 1980s, I used to say, “This isn’t the same sun we had in California; it’s up there shining, but you can’t feel anything!”