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One of my recent weekly challenge images was a photograph of my vehicles tachometer. At the bottom of that gauge there is an outside temperature reading.<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n The reading for that day was 109 degrees F.<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n As I was cropping and processing that photograph there was an \u201cArctic Blast\u201d covering a large portion of the northern and eastern United States, The United Kingdom and several other European countries.<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n How ironic that outside temperatures were dropping drastically to the near freezing point as I processed a photograph taken during a dangerous summer heat wave.<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n There is a joke in the United States, appropriate for several regions, that says if you don\u2019t like the weather just wait a day. There are also many memes on social media that show the difference in weather in a single day from sun up to sun down.\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/span>The characters in those memes go from wearing winter clothes to spring clothing to summer wear and back to winter clothing as the day progresses. <\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n These memes and jokes are painfully true sometimes, maybe most of the time for some locations. Temperatures can vary as much as 60 degrees from day to night in places like the deserts of the southwestern United States.<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Luckily, for most of us in the US those drastic temperature drops are not the norm. They may happen but only rarely.<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Much like the temperature was dropping the day I processed that image, the sun is shining and it\u2019s a mild, winter day as I write this blog entry. However, there is a drastic change coming in the next few days and another Arctic Blast with wintry precipitation is expected. <\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n