A FEW NOTES TO EXPLAIN THAT FACT
* Freeze Warning for the west part of the Texas and Oklahoma Panhandle late tonight through Friday morning. Temperatures as low as the upper 20s.
* Winter weather in Central Colorado with 3 to 6 inches of snow expected and possibly up to 8 inches.
* A freeze tonight for Central and Western Wyoming, as cold as the lower 20s.
* At noon today, it was 18 degrees on Monarch Pass in Colorado with wind gusts to 36 mph and a wind chill of 1 below.
* 11 inches of new snow on the ground at Willow Creek in Western Wyoming. 3 inches of new snow in Yellowstone National Park.
* Low of 15 this morning at Ely, Nevada.
* 5 below zero at Anaktuvuk Pass, Alaska. It was 10 at Bettles.
* 20 this morning at Delta, Utah, the lowest temperature ever recorded at that location on October 1.
* 23 inches of new snow in Carbon County, Wyoming.
* i saw one tree already showing autumn color in NE Jefferson County in NE Trussville.
