December 7, 2015 evening

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Good evening. Currently 39 degrees and cloudy in the city. Chilly with the wind whipping around. At least we aren’t dealing with the heavy fog this evening. Christmas lights are on downtown and the state Christmas tree is lit. 28 degrees for a low tonight. Sunrise tomorrow at 7:05 AM.

Busy day at work, spent a lot of time with spreadsheet crunching numbers and making pretty graphs. It made the day go by quickly. The weekend will hopefully come quickly then springtime. The latest weekend forecast is a split verdict but very warm.

Kind of a quiet anticlimactic evening tonight. Traffic grinds along on the way out of the city. We got a late start as traffic was slow on South Swan. Now it seems fairly light.

No tanker trains at the port tonight. Maybe they are just switching up the tankers. I’ve been wondering about the impact of low oil prices on the future of oil trains. Then again, I’m certain low oil prices can’t last forever. Climate change negotiations continue.

December 7, 2015 update

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Good morning. Currently we are up to 29 degrees on a bright and sunny morning. All week looks to be sunny to partly sunny with increasing temperatures reaching 60 degrees on Sunday. Hello, spring. I just wish the days weren’t so darn short.

It’s somewhat foggy in the city but not nearly as bad as last night. The fog last night was pretty scary for driving on the expressway or any place driving over about 40 mph.

Still don’t have maps working on my laptop yet but hopefully soon. There was a lot going on last week and the weekends I’ve been out camping. I’m sure cold nasty winter weather will eventually come and I’ll have more time for that.

December 7, 2015 morning

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Good morning. Currently 25 degrees and clear this morning. The fog has lifted on this Monday morning. There may be some places of dense fog and potential black ice so be careful this morning on the trip to work. Slippery sidewalks are just as likely to cause injury as icy roads.

Today will be mostly sunny, with a high near 43. Calm wind becoming northwest 5 to 7 mph in the morning. Sunset at 4:21 PM. The days certainly are short and dark this time of year. Fortunately, the shortest day of the year is two weeks from Wednesday and then the days get longer with a noticeable gain by the end of January.

So far winter has been mild. It seems like the pattern will last through the start of calendar winter, and maybe longer. No accumulating snow in much of New York. I’m not complaining.