After that wintery blast earlier, things really have settled down here. No rain likely but if we got rain we would also have hail and damaging winds to go with it, so no rain is fine. It was a bit windy yesterday and we had a little dust in the air but not much by our standards. It's going to be a bit cooler for a couple of days but nothing drastic.
It might be windy and dusty later but right now it is cloudy and calm. Whatever happens, it isn't at all cold and won't be. I got a lot of work done outside yesterday, an important first step.
For 2022 the holidays are finally over, that end-of-year clot. I won't have to deal with that for a while. But that big wheel keeps on turning, doesn't it. Round and round we go, and so on. VERY mild weather today! Feels great. Work done outside yesterday, but I'm far from finished with that.
Big event for drunks, unfortunately. I wouldn't be out tonight for any reason. Drunk drivers. Nice weather though.
In January the winds really start to kick up and the month has sometimes been notable for dust storms, one after another, the sky turning brown. If not, then January tends to be brutally cold with one ice storm after another. Name your poison. I guess I'd rather have dirt and high wind to deal with than ice. It's a climate of extremes around here. I've lived in Lubbock more or less continuously since 1967. I think I've seen it all, including an F5 tornado that tore the heck out of the area I lived in at that time. For several years after that, tornado watches, alerts, and warnings were common. Now, not so common. We were in the heart of "Tornado Alley". Tornado Alley seems to be a thing of the past. The climate has definitely changed! And it is still changing.
