Valentine's Heat is On!

Two weekends ago we hunkered in our bunker as heavy rains and winds buffeted the Desert Southwest. There was so much rain that it broke all time records for the period and, when all was said and done, the olde raingauge had a total of 3.06” in it.

Those rains were followed by Downslope mountain wave winds during which we shook, rattled and rolled as gusts exceeded 70mph.

About the only thing it’s not going to do here on the desert floor is snow though freezing is always possible as we saw last year.

Over the past several days there have been some significant earthquakes just south of the Mexican Border near Calexico that have been felt in the area in which we are. Of course, with the San Andreas Fault just several miles out our back door, we are always thinking of the potential of "the big one" here.

A few days ago we began to turn around what had been an exceptionally cool January during which temperatures ranged from 10-15 degrees below normal. Finally, a huge dome of hi pressure began to develop over the eastern Pacific Ocean bringing sinking air that heats due to compression as it piles up at the surface. Yesterday the thermometer rose to about 82 degrees while today the mercury topped out at 87. Yes, 87 degrees in February. It was absolutely marvelous. We all did something we haven’t done in a long, long time; we sweated and it was glorious. I felt the rivulets running down the back of my neck and down my shirt to my waist band. Ummm, good stuff!

The weather bookie is predicting that tomorrow will be another day just about exactly like today meaning more sweat and maybe even running an air conditioner here in the motorhome. Needless to say, the a/c was on in the car as we did our Valentine’s day shopping today. I managed to find what I believe to be the absolutely perfect card for Judy. I’ll share the text of the card with you after the big day as Judy reads these posts, of course.

While out looking for that perfect something for the special day we managed to try to find a few more geocaches along the way. We searched for three but only succeeded in locating one. We’ve discovered we were really off in locating one of them and will give it another try next time we’re in that area. The other ache is very close to our RV park and we’ll check it out again though we pretty well covered the area today.

Sweating while geocaching in shorts and tee shirts just before Valentine’s Day. What a country!

Happy Valentine’s Day to all the ladies who read this from me and a hug for all the guys from Judy.