Your winter lettuce is bolting and seeding as if it were March.
On Monday, a wildfire was burning in the Huachuca Mountains.
Folks shopped the Fourth Avenue Winter Street Fair in shorts this past weekend.
Yes, it is mid-December.
And yes, it should be colder than this — 10 to 15 degrees colder than the high temperatures predicted for this week.
Look for highs in the upper 70s on Tuesday, Dec. 13, and in the low 80s on Wednesday and Thursday, threatening the Dec. 14 record of 80 in 2010 and the Dec. 15 record of 81 set in 1969.
A storm will move in Friday, bringing wind and reducing temperatures to below-normal levels. The storm could bring mountain snow and valley rain to the region, said meteorologist Emily French of the National Weather Service in Tucson.
High temperatures Friday and Saturday should be five to 10 degrees below the average for this time of year, which is 65 degrees.
Monday afternoon, the weather service said the best chance for that rain and snow will be overnight Friday into Saturday morning.
Temperatures will warm back up Sunday and Monday, the weather service said.
Monday’s 70-acre fire, on a ridge between Carr and Ramsey canyons in the Huachucas, was smoldering and 90 percent contained by Monday afternoon, according to Heidi Schewel of the Coronado National Forest. The fire was human-caused.
