Meteorology in South America

A rainy day in Buenos Aires.  One photo shows that we are surfing the net and posting blogs this morning. It also shows the nice living room and dining room in our apartment.  The other photo is our view from our old French-style apartment and is the alternative side of the San Telmo neighborhood -- some buildings beautifully restored, some, well, "under construction."  The building across the street is typical of many structures in this neighborhood.  The bottom floor is a bakery, political party office (Kirchner), and a bodega ("kiosko").  The second floor is a tango studio, which seems to take the place the cut-rate karate studio has in large US cities.  The third floor, naturally, is a parking garage.  What else?  The fourth floor is under construction and looks like it has been for 50 years.

Oh, yeah, the meteorology part . . .   It took a while to find a weather report that predicted rain for today -- its pooooring outside.  In general we have found the reports incredibly unreliable -- even weather.com and wunderground.com vary as much a ten degrees.  We have been seeing reports for Sierra de la Ventana, the mountain region we are visiting next week, showing temperatures of 99 degrees and of 82 degrees.  The forecast for BA seems to be much hotter than it ever turns out to be.  Sylvan thinks it is a bit humid and hot, but I think the days are just great and the nights are cool.