What is your transition temperature?

 

I debated for days what to call this post, when in reality it isn’t that involved. Okay maybe not days, but at least from last night. We got to make sure we stick with facts nowadays.

And for those of you who don’t know, today is the first day of the State Fair of Texas, three weeks of food, food, food, and none of it good for you, fun, fun, and very expensive fun nowadays since rides and midway games are out of control on pricing, exhibits, exhibits plus more things you never knew you wanted to look at and finally some pretty good entertainment throughout the run of the Fair including football and music mainly. And oh yeah, some animals, lots of animals with a cacophony of smells of both, well animal poop and wonderful food, sometimes hitting you side by side as you walk depending on where you are in the Fairgrounds.

Go and have fun.

And now back to the post. Wherever you live there is a temperature, maybe a small range depending on the season it will feel cool or warm. For North Texas that ranges is the 60’s (Fahrenheit of course). When you head into fall sometime around October or November the temperature will hit the sixties and it feels cool. Yet come February or early March it will warm up to the sixties. And yes, it feels the same temperature technically, but this is the range where the previous season affects the feel of the temperature more so than the actual temperature.

And again this may be different for where you live. Yet there is a temperature that is the transition temperature. Even in Texas in the summer the 80’s and even the 70’s are still warm. Of course hot is 90 plus. In the winter the fifties still feel cool even if it was thirty the day before, yet if it starts climbing into the 60’s you see people pick up their step, that jacket begins to be carried or wrapped around their waist. In October you start to see sweaters on some people when the temps start running into the 60’s.

All strange but true. Why is this important? Well it isn’t, but the State Fair is here, fall is coming, and yes I know the first day of fall was earlier this week. This is Texas, fall is still somewhat a ways off.

Or you can just ask yourself what is this country’s transition temperature because we need to get out of the current climate we are in right now. At what point does enough “regular” people get tired of the hate and want to do something?

 

Cheers, go enjoy a corn dog, dust off your eggnog recipes, shop for that pumpkin, and drag out those fall clothes. The seasons are a changin’ and the times need to change.