7:54 am - Friday - February 14th - TWW - 40° F, humidity 88%, wind 17 mph out of the south by southwest.....partly cloudy skies this morning with a forecast high of 46° F. On this date in 2015 TLE and I were boondocking off Thousand Trails Road near Cottonwood, AZ.....
....we boondocked near a hot air balloon launch site. The view this morning....
The weather guessers were spot on about Thursday's weather. It began raining around noon time, and rained all afternoon, all evening, and all night long. As I write we can see some blue sky, but the forecast for today (Friday) is more rain until early afternoon. We spent part of the morning putting some of our rolling stock in the garage, and making sure everything was buttoned up around our site, but that was the extent of our outdoor activity.
The rain was steady, and never very hard, but always present. The kind of rain you hope for in a very dry place such as where we live. You certainly don't want torrential. This kind of rain soaks into the ground where its life giving moisture will remain for weeks, if not months into the future.
Due to the heavy cloud cover we had our Predator 5000 dual fuel generator running most of the day, mostly to put as much energy into our house batteries as possible. We managed to get them back to 84%, but that was the high water mark for the day. On the other hand, our Bluetti AC200MAX battery bank reach 100% by late morning. Love those lithium iron phosphate batteries!
Around 7 pm TLE and I had to got outside and stow our patio awning due to the freshening wind conditions. The wind actually blew all night long at 17-20 mph out of the south, so stowing the awning was the smart thing to do. As I write (around 8:15 am Friday) it is still windy, and should continue to be so until this evening, but for now we are getting some sun on our Eco-Worthy Dual Axis Solar Tracker....in fact, we're getting around 400 watts right now. Our house batteries went down to 57% overnight....as low as they've been for quite a while.
At any rate, it looks like today (Friday) will be another wet, windy day, so we'll be holed up in the warm, dry confines of the Newell most of the day. Hoping for a break in the weather early this afternoon!
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