'If you don't like the weather in the Ozarks, wait ten minutes.' 

                                                                                                    --old saying

'We get up in a different world every day.'

                                             --Ronda Young, north Greene County, Missouri, gardener

How crazy is our climate? Mark this down, because for people in our part of the country, it's a life-changing fact:

    The city with the most changeable weather in the United States is Springfield, Missouri.

    This observation comes from the National Weather Service and is based on variations in temperature, rainfall, winds, thunderstorms, snow, sleet, hail, tornadoes, and other weather phenomena. 

    Of course, knowing the true extent of our climate's wackiness frees one from the almost perpetual groping for a handle on what the weather will be at any given time. Even for our best meteorologists, it's mostly guesswork.

Here are some notes on our Ozarks climate season by season: