This is shaping up to be a pretty nice day. Temps mild, winds light, and plenty of sunshine. Things are getting back to normal around here, in terms of traffic and crowds.
Our very mild weather continues, with plenty of clouds but not a chance of rain.
The wind got strong and the dust blew, but still far from the worst I've experienced. Today should be great.
I finished my outdoor work yesterday, but so far no dust and no high winds. I imagine all that will come later. That's all right. I'd rather deal with above normal temps and blowing dust than ice, snow, sleet, single digit wind chills, and all the rest of that misery we would normally have around this time of year. But I know it's coming. Maybe the longer warm weather holds out, the less severe the rest of the winter will be.
No white Christmas for Lubbock but maybe a brown (blowing dust) Christmas Eve and record high temps. That's happened before but I can't remember exactly when. Maybe in the eighties. This has always been a drought prone region. A "semi-arid land" but it seems to be moving in the direction of arid, with no modifier. Dry, dry, dry, dry. Texas Tech used to take pride in an International Center For The Study Of Arid And Semi-arid Lands. ICASALS is what it used to be called. Haven't heard much about that in many years. Maybe like the MUMS it came and went. City of MUMS and city of CHURCHES... now, it's the city of what?
