Somewhat Cold Week Ahead

 Cold and windy today, moderation after that, and then another cold snap by the weekend. No single digits, at least. Only very slight chances of light snow flurries for the coming weekend, and if the wind is not too great, and we have mostly clear skies it might not be so bad. It has certainly been much worse. It seemed for a while that War Rogers and his concubine, Catastrophe Jane, might visit us. But instead we got confusion, dithering, lies, propaganda, bullshit, misinformation and disinformation. Par for the dismal course. If anybody really knows anything, they are not sharing. 

NOT As Cold As Forecast

 At least, not so far. Time is running out for any significant wintery "blast". That's OK with me, but it continues to be very dry. Playa lakes are very low and some might actually go completely dry. Lubbock, sadly, is heavily dependent now on water from wells, and that resource is not renewable. At one time we heard about plans to use treated sewage and runoff from the storm drain system as a a source of drinking water but I've heard no more about that. I suspect that such sources would require very high investments of energy to produce potable water and that might not be feasible. At my age I really don't have to be concerned about such things, unless I live to be 120 or so. 

The Norther Arrived!

 Strong winds just before sunrise, but they are slacking off now and there is plenty of sunshine and it will be above freezing for our high temps each of these somewhat wintery days, extending through the weekend. No precipitation of any kind with this "event". We stay very dry, like some martinis. Oh, do we ever need rain! 

If we wait long enough, it will rain. Might have to wait a long time. 

Cold Weekend

 But how cold it will be is still uncertain. Depends on which way the wind blows. They say you don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows, but we don't have weathermen anymore, and that's a good thing, actually. We have weather forecasters. And that makes more sense. 

Another Weak Norther

 Makes me wonder what February will be like. More of the same would be fine with me, except that the need for rain is becoming critical.