November 2022 has produced both warm fall days and a couple weeks of snow and high, damaging winds, but it’s not broken any records. In fact, the recent cold nights and colder days more closely resemble what used to be Ouray’s average minimum and maximum temperatures for this last month of autumn.

As of Tuesday the 22nd, minimum temperatures averaged 21.6 degrees. Until 2006, they averaged 23.2. From 2006 – 2020 (the new normal, thanks to climate change) they averaged 24.4.

In 1979, by compa...