Sunday was 97°F—the hottest March day in 50 years. By Monday morning, Austin was 39°F and activating emergency cold weather shelters. A 58-degree swing in under 24 hours. The city went from shorts and AC to space heaters and panic in one afternoon, tied to one of the largest single-day temperature drops on record. This is what chaos looks like when you live in a place where the weather doesn't follow rules.

But the temperature whiplash is just local meteorology. The real disruption happening th