Wednesday February 7th 2018

I didn’t think it was going to happen, but today was even uglier than the last two days weather wise. It was colder and windier than yesterday. During the night a cold front went through. It rained and the wind howled steadily from around four in the morning. The rain let up around ten, but the wind continued all day. It was also ten to fifteen degrees colder than yesterday. The normal high temperature for the area is in the mid sixties. Today the high temperature was in the mid forties.

This bird spent most of its time turning in circles with its head in the water.  This may be a Northern Shoveler. 

Up until last September when Texas was hit by hurricane Harvey I had planned to spend the winter in this area. I decided not to compete with any displaced people for the available RV sites. That turned out to be a good decision. Not only because there are still people displaced by the hurricane staying here, but also because of the winter weather. It has been unusually cold in this area. The last few days are representative of the lousy weather in this area. They also had a period of time at the end of December, beginning of January that had overnight lows in the teens. For future reference I need to remember to restrict visits to this area to late February through the end of May. I know it is to humid for comfort in the summertime.

While waiting for the rain to stop this morning I started reading an old ebook. That took any thought of braving the raw weather with a trip to downtown San Antonio off the table. It was the right decision. Just taking a walk around the RV park this afternoon was uncomfortable. The windchill was probably in the low thirties. Most of the ducks were huddled on the shore of the lake. Nobody else was out walking around.

Tonight is forecast in the low thirties, but the sun is supposed to be visible tomorrow with temperatures in the low to mid sixties. The string of overcast and wet days should be broken. I may finally make it downtown.