Weather - you might want to dress appropriately

As I sit in front of my computer, it is December 15 and I am listening to sleet come down like crazy. In fact, my last final for the semester was cancelled because of the weather. I was reminded Saturday how important knowing the weather forecast, even if only for the next 4 hours, can be.
The last forecast I saw Friday night before packing my truck for a Saturday morning deer hunt was a chilly start, but warming up to almost 60 degrees with sunshine. I took some light clothes up to the bedroom with me, however, I went ahead and put my insulated bibs and parka in the truck, just in case. Just in case what!? The weather people with lots of training and super computers might be wrong? Surely since they are ahead of this global warming and are able to tell us how the earth is going to 'burn up', then they can accurately predict the weather tomorrow. Like I said, just in case, I decided to take some extra clothes.
Early Saturday morning was just as predicted and the gauge in my truck read around 32 degrees as we made our way down to the property. After a quick stop for my favorite, sausage biscuits, we made it right on time and began the process of getting ready for a morning of sitting on the stand. Yes, it was quite chilly as we got ready in the pre-dawn. However, I knew I had a fairly long walk that would warm me up and as my buddy said just before I walked off, "you'll be carrying anything you wear back after the sun comes up and the temp rises to near 60!" But, I still took most of my heavy gear anyway.
The sun made a brief appearance in the sky before getting covered by clouds. That's when the fun began. The wind picked up and blew steady around 15 - 20 mph with gusts up over 25. It was coming straight out of the east and as luck would have it, my stand was located on the edge of the field facing south and it had several hundered yards of open space before it came rushing in the stand with me. I do not know how else to put it except, I was absolutely miserable! It blew and blew and would not quit. As thankful as I was for the heavy clothes I did bring, I could have used another layer or two.
I endured this until 9:30 or so, and actually saw some deer. They looked as miserable as I was and ran at full-speed from one side of the bean field to the other, and then back again. I suppose they were trying to keep warm as well. I hope they fared better than I did.
Well, the high Saturday where I was never got out of the 40's. I'm sure it might have reached the high they said it would somewhere, but I never experienced it. Now, please allow me to be very clear on this...I love cold weather. I especially like the cold weather while hunting. That is the way it is supposed to be. I just like to know ahead of time! What we can take from this is we should be prepared for just about anything, and I firmly believe every once in a while Mother Nature decides to show these weather people that she is in control.