The norther is a “weather event” (ugh) that only occurs in the states of The Great Plains, of which Texas lies at the very bottom. It is the home stretch for the streams of cold, arctic air that come down through Canada, drawn to the warmer air of the Gulf of Mexico. It isn’t a tornado. It isn’t a storm front. It’s a wall of fast-moving, cold air, always accompanied by rain, sometimes by hail. It's here, and then it's gone. But it always leaves changes in its wake. Sometimes it marks the end of a season, sometimes of a way of life. With a norther, you just never know.