Good evening! Partly cloudy and 17 degrees in Delmar. There is a north-northwest breeze at 8 mph. Kind of a chilly night, but reasonable for the first week of January. Went out for my evening walk earlier and it was a bit chilly but I was bundled up so it wasn’t too bad. Lots of pretty moonlight  tonight, somewhat filtered through the clouds. 

Didn’t do a lot today besides going out to breakfast with my parents and sister and niece for my mom’s birthday. I got her a gift card and then I went down to the library for a bit. Worked on some code for the blog and did some cleaning. Watched the evening news, listened to the podcast, went for a walk. 

Tonight will be mostly cloudy, with a low of 11 degrees at 4am. Four degrees below normal. Northwest wind around 8 mph. In 2016, it got down to 12 degrees under mostly cloudy skies. The record low of -18 occurred back in 1878.

Waxing Gibbous Moon tonight with 68% illuminated. The moon will set around 4:38 am. The Full “Wolf” Moon is on Thursday night with chance of showers then mostly cloudy skies expected and chance of rain then chance of rain/snow. 

The sun will rise at 7:24 am with the first light at 6:53 am, which is 11 seconds earlier then yesterday. Most of the daylight we are gaining now is in the evening. Which is nice. Tonight will have 14 hours and 45 minutes of darkness, a decrease of 1 minutes and 15 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will have scattered snow showers, mainly after 9am. The snow could be heavy at times. Mostly cloudy, with a high of 21 degrees at 1pm. Nine degrees below normal. Kind of like today but only breezer. Wind chill values as low as -1. West wind 8 to 16 mph. Chance of precipitation is 50%. New snow accumulation of less than one inch possible. A year ago, we had mostly cloudy skies and a high of 41 degrees. The record high of 60 was set in 2008. 8.3 inches of snow fell back in 1923.

With that kind of forecast it’s hard to make any big plans, but I will play it by ear and decide if it decent maybe to go hiking locally. If we ever get snow here in Delmar, I really want to ski this rail trail down along the Norman’s Kill. I’m sure it’s bound to happen before the end of winter or so I hope. And summer will come eventually. 

In four weeks on February 4 the sun will be setting at 5:13 pm, which is 34 minutes later then tonight. In 2016 on that day, we had rain and temperatures between 57 and 36 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 32 and 15 degrees. The record high of 61 degrees was set back in 1991.

Looking ahead, Average High is 40 is in 8 weeks and April Fools Day is in 12 weeks.