So I learned more today.  It didn't quite converge the same this morning, but I was seeing only 12 or so sat's.  I don't know what this means, but about 11am I went back out again and with in 30 minutes I was down below one inch seeing 15-16 sats.  When I drive down the road back home I have to go through trees overhead and I lose signal.  I took about 4 minutes to get through the trees and then when I got into the clear it took only 2 minutes to converge back down.