“Like usual I was running a little bit late and either the bus didn’t come or was running late so I had to wait for the 9:10 local downtown. I guess I shouldn’t have assumed all buses would be delayed as city streets are mostly just wet. It didn’t help that my driveway wasn’t plowed so I had to put my big boots on and my neighbor was stuck, so I tried to give him a small push on my way running out to the stop. High centered on my unplowed driveway. I guess it doesn’t matter in the grand scheme of things as the bus is getting me to work and my supervisor knows I’m running late.”
Right now it’s mostly cloudy with a bit of sun and 29 degrees in Delmar, NY. Snow banks everywhere. Breezy, 24 mph breeze from the northwest with gusts up to 37 mph. The current wind chill is 15. The skies will clear around 2 pm.
Today will have isolated snow showers before 11am. Partly sunny, with a high of 31 degrees at 12pm. Three degrees below normal. Windy, with a northwest wind 24 to 29 mph, with gusts as high as 47 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%.
The sun will set at 5:25 pm with dusk around 5:54 pm, which is 1 minute and 18 seconds later than yesterday. Today will have 10 hours and 32 minutes of daylight, an increase of 2 minutes and 40 seconds over yesterday.
Tonight will be partly cloudy, with a low of 13 degrees at 6am. Four degrees below normal. Blustery, with a northwest wind 16 to 21 mph decreasing to 7 to 12 mph after midnight. In 2016, it got down to -13 degrees under clear skies. That is the record for the night of Valentine’s Day.
As previously noted, next Monday is Presidents Day when the sun will be setting at 5:34 pm with dusk at 6:03 pm. On that day in 2016, we had rain, snow and temperatures between 62 and 35 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 36 degrees. We hit a record high of 66 back in 1930.