Beautiful commute today, cool & clear in the morning warm with a light breeze in the afternoon: Yesterday was different: quite breezy in the morning and at Noon with constantly shifting winds so that I seemed always to be riding against a head wind or struggling to keep from being blown off track. In the afternoon, the wind kicked up noticeably, no rain or hail but lots of big dark clouds to the North & West. Wind was gusting up to 50 MPH from the NorthWest which is really unusual, lots of big branches blowing around & a few trees came down. Right after I arrived home our electric power went out for the night. Didn't come back on until about 10:35 PM when I had just drifted off to sleep. Had to get up & turn off lights & radio which I had missed at bedtime. Don