Around 4:30 in the afternoon, just before sundown, the clouds parted like somebody opened a curtain. It was uncanny. Not in time to do the solar panels any good of course, in fact just enough to heat them enough that when the cold came the slightly-melted snow froze to the panels like concrete.
And then, since there was no cloud cover, the temperature fell like a sledge hammer. By the cool indoor-outdoor thermometer Landlady got me last year, it was 14 degrees by 7:30. Twelve hours later almost exactly, it was 1 degree.
This was a good test of the Lair, which did well … considering that I built it. 38 degrees on the ground floor, and it took a LONG time to get up to 60.
