Wow What a Change!

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Yesterday it was gorgeous, sunny and 53 degrees. As evening came around it started to cloud over and rain a little. At 9:00 it was still about 40 degrees, I was listening to the raindrops hit the metal cover on the air conditioner in the window behind me while I was sitting on the couch watching tv. About 9:30, within seconds, there were no more raindrops and all I could hear was the tick tick tick of sleet. I checked the temperature and it was down to 25 degrees! It dropped 15 degrees in 1/2 hr! By 10:00 there was an inch of ice and sleet on the ground and it was down to 19 degrees and windy. Hubby put on his shoes and coat and braved the ice to put a tarp over the windshield so it wouldn't be so hard to clean off in the morning. I told him he better get up early because I had a bad feeling the doors on the car would be frozen shut. We got up at 5:00 am this morning and it was only 3 degrees! That's a 50 degree drop in temperature in 13 hours! Ice everywhere outside. Sure enough 3 of the 4 doors were frozen shut on the car. Hubby had to climb through only door that would open, the back door, to get the car started and turn on the heater. Since the tarp was held in place by the front doors he couldn't get the tarp off the windshield until the doors would open. After running the heater in the car full blast for 20 minutes the front doors finally opened. He said it was a good thing he put the tarp on there because there was a 1/2 inch solid layer of ice and sleet collected on it. It would have taken a lot of work to get that off the windshield! I'm sure since this was a huge cold front we weren't the only ones who got that huge drop in temperature and icy weather overnight. My sinuses and arthritis are feeling it something awful this morning. Anyone else have a story about the big change overnight? Does a big change in the weather affect your body like it does mine!?