Good morning! Happy Saturday. Finally the weekend! Next Saturday is Christmas Eve. Snow and 25 degrees in Delmar. There is a south breeze at 14 mph. The current wind chill is 13. Roads are snow covered this morning, watch for ice as it warms up this afternoon. 

Today will continue snow until around 2pm, then a chance of snow and sleet between 2pm and 3pm, then a chance of rain and sleet after 3pm. Warming throughout the day with a high of 36 degrees at 5pm. One degree above normal. South wind 9 to 14 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. Total daytime snow and sleet accumulation of 2 to 4 inches possible. A year ago, we had fog, rain and a high of 52 degrees. The record high of 59 was set in 1984. My first Christmas! I’m 11.1 inches of snow fell back in 1970. I bet those Plymouth  Newports were dogs in the snow back in the day.

Today I will probably stay in town but will walk down to the library to hop on the Internet. Working on some blog revisions to the code, and removing some obsolete code. It’s kind of nice living in the city on snowy day today. 

The sun will set at 4:23 pm with dusk around 4:55 pm, which is 22 seconds later than yesterday. Today will have 9 hours and 3 minutes of daylight, a decrease of 15 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will have a chance of drizzle before midnight, then rain, mainly after midnight. Low of 35 degrees at 7pm. 15 degrees above normal. South wind 10 to 17 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible. In 2015, it got down to 36 degrees with periods of snow. The record low of -9 occurred back in 1919.

As previously noted, next Saturday is Christmas Eve when the sun will be setting at 4:26 pm with dusk at 4:58 pm. Days are getting longer, or will be soon. On that day in 2015, we had fairly heavy rain and temperatures between 72 and 43 degrees. I worked on Christmas Eve last year and I remember waiting for the bus in the rain. 

Last year we hit the record high on Christmas Eve, this year is expected to be cooler. Might be a White Christmas but there won’t be a lot accumulation due to Sundays rain and above freezing temperatures for most of the week. Typically, the high temperature is 33 degrees.