February 9, 2016 Evening

Good evening. Currently there is light snow coming down and 30 degrees in Albany. The roads are wet and salt covered.

Tonight will continue to have snow likely, picking up after 4am. Cloudy, with a low around 23. Calm wind becoming south around 5 mph in the evening. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New snow accumulation of less than one inch possible.

In four weeks on March 8 the sun will be setting at 5:54 pm, which is 35 minutes later then today. There are 20 days until Leap Day. when the sun will be setting at 5:44 pm.

I’m pretty tired this evening. Still recovering from the cold I’ve had but it’s hardly been a severe cold. I will rest up tonight.

February 9, 2016 Morning

Good morning! Happy Tuesday. Light snow is coming down and it’s 25 degrees in Albany. Today will be cloudy, with a high near 33. Southeast wind 3 to 5 mph. Kind of a sloppy morning with the inch of wet snow around from last night’s snow squalls. Treated surfaces are just wet and the sidewalks are plowed but some places like my driveway aren’t real clear. I wore my hunting boots to work. I’m hopeful the warm temperatures will melt the snow, so I won’t have to clean off my car for the weekend.

Sunset will be at 5:19 pm with twilight at 5:48 pm which is one minute and 19 seconds later then yesterday. Tonight we will have a chance of snow showers. Cloudy, with a low around 25. South wind 3 to 5 mph. Chance of precipitation is 40%. New snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible.

There are 20 days until Leap Day. They extend Presidential Election years just to make our lives more miserable. They should move leap day to more pleasant month of the year.

Today in 1950, Senator Joseph McCarthy announced that the United States Department of State was full of communists. Despite what contemporary Republicans are claiming, Mr. McCarthy was not referring to Hillary Clinton. It is certainly interesting on how history has turned on Joe McCarthy.