Fall would be
nice this year

We have a couple of questions for Mother Nature: What’s wrong with the weather lately? Has the idea of four distinct seasons gone out of style?
On the last day of September we were all wearing t-shirts and running our car air conditioners as if it were still summer, but Oct. 1 ushered in winter. We were forced to wake up and search frantically though our closets for coats and gloves to go tramping through the snow, no, wait, rain, snow, sun, rain, hail — what in the world is going on?
Dressing for this kind of weather poses an odd challenge for SUU students. Not only does the weather change every ten minutes, but each classroom has a climate all its own.
There’s the computer lab in the Centrum where seeing a bikini-clad woman carrying sun block wouldn’t be all that out of the question, and then there are lecture halls in the P.E. Building were eskimos would feel at home.
The issue of the weather outside is also a challenge. Often, we find ourselves running through the rain holding books over our heads for protection, removing all of our outer layers in class, and puting them back on afterward only to discover the sun is shining and it’s too hot to wear them.
Back in elementary school we all learned about the four seasons: winter, spring, summer and fall. But now Mother Nature is trying to confuse us. Instead of placing them in the months we were taught they should occur, she throws them all into one day.
This year, instead of October being greeted with children jumping in piles of colorful leaves and carving pumpkins in the crisp night air, it was smothered by white snow and chilling temperatures.
We happen to like fall, and hope we have one. Driving up the canyon to appreciate the colors and the changing of the seasons has been a long-standing opportunity for Cedar City residents. And while the red rock, white snow and Evergreen trees of winter are just as amazing as the red, yellow and orange