WHETHER, WEATHER
25 Mar. Chris here.
We’re gearing up for the next stint down south. Once again, a spring storm will goof with our plans.
Folks who don’t live on the west coast/SW USA/North Baja don’t understand the complex thing that storms are here. They come off the Pacific Ocean, mostly from the Gulf of Alaska. Because of that, predicting is very hard to do. Will they be a light-shower (?) or torrential downpour with freezing temps down to 2000 ft elevation and dangerous to travel, especially thru the three mountain passes we have to go thru to get to San Vicente (????)…. That’s the tension….
Travel during a rainstorm is tricky in Mexico. Roads are not constructed for drainage, there are few broad side-shoulders… a travel-tolerable rainstorm in the US could be dangerous-travel in Mexico. Besides, in the cities (we have to go thru Tijuana and Ensenada) the street water mixes with sewage…
So, we’ve become quite adept at weather charts. Thanks to my dad’s education as a kid (he was a private-pilot flight instructor), I can read the weather maps directly from the Natl Weather Service, and we have all the direct weather satellite servers ‘book-marked’. Give me 20 minutes and I can tell ya what’s up in the next 12 hours…
Fortunately, our storm season is late October thru end of April. We get May thru late October as basically sunny…
Another small puzzle piece of our crazy existence… your bro, Chris
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