January 16, 2018 Morning

Good morning! Happy Tuesday. πŸ˜€Or Pseudo Monday during this four day week after the Martin Luther King Holiday.🏢💰💰💰 Next Tuesday is National Pie Day.🍰 The snow has stopped for now. Cloudy and 18 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☁ There is a south-southeast breeze at 6 mph. The skies will clear tomorrow around 4 pm.

🐰Only 63 days remain until the first day of calendar spring!🐣

Today will have a chance of light snow before 1pm, then snow likely after 1pm. Cloudy, with a high of 30 degrees at 2pm. Typical for today.❄ ❄❄ South wind 6 to 8 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. Total daytime snow accumulation of less than one inch possible. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies with more clouds in the afternoon. The high last year was 39 degrees. The record high of 62 was set in 1995. 15.1 inches of snow fell back in 1945.❄❄

The sun will set at 4:49 pm with dusk around 5:20 pm, which is one minute and 12 seconds later than yesterday. At sunset, look for snow and 30 degrees. There will be a south breeze at 7 mph. Today will have 9 hours and 27 minutes of daytime, a decrease of one minute and 43 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will snow. No question about that.  of 24 degrees at 5am. 10 degrees above normal. South wind around 5 mph becoming light and variable. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New snow accumulation of 2 to 4 inches possible. In 2017, we had cloudy skies, clearing in the early hours of the next day. It got down to 19 degrees. The record low of -23 occurred back in 1971.

I’m tired of scraping my windshield so I’m trying out putting an old  tarp over the windshield to try to make it easier to clean off with less ice. 🚘❄Not sure how well it will work, it might freeze to the truck or rip, but that’s why I am using an old tarp. It was such a pain to clean off the windshield with the ice the other day, so hopefully this will work. I’m one for experimentation. The tarp is loosely put over the truck to avoid sticking and held down to ground using bottles of windshield washer fluid and antifreeze. It either will work or not. Worth a try. 

After so many relatively mild winters, this seems like the first big one in years. Maybe not that terrible but it seems like most of this winter has been cold and snowy. ❄❄❄❄

As previously noted, next Tuesday is National Pie Day when the sun will be setting at 4:58 pm with dusk at 5:28 pm. On that day in 2017, we had rain, freezing rain, snow, sleet, mist, mostly cloudy skies and temperatures between 39 and 32 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 31 degrees. We hit a record high of 64 back in 1906.