Here in S.E. NM we Full Time RV'ers at The Escapee Ranch in Lakewood, NM have learned not to depend on the National Weather Service, just chuckle and give them the 15 degree rule.

Here in rural NM I learned to tell the weather from some of the old cowboys and ranch foreman I met while on the road, RV'ing up in the mountains west of Capitan. You bet, I spent over a year camped up there, of which included one winter, as a personal challenge, testing myself and my fifth wheel RV to the…