Good morning! An hour or so later the sun is up and the mercury is now around 17 degrees. I didn’t do very good at getting up this morning and indeed missed both the express bus and the earlier local.

I was running late this morning, and at eight AM noticed Vadney’s Underground Plumbing truck parked in the lot. Rushed in the shower to make sure I got a quick shower in before the water would be shut off. They are replacing the sewer line out front which for years has been problematic for the landlord. He had some kind of permit dispute with the town, so he couldn’t fix it. Hopefully now the tub will drain quicker once the new line is in. I’m hoping it’s done by the time I get home, but that may be unrealistic, as they seemed to have trouble finding the existing sewer line. At least I hope that water will be working.

Misplaced my bus pass but found it after I got on the bus. Ended up using my other card, but that’s fine, $1.30 won’t break the bank. I will get to work, abit a little later then I would I have hoped. So be it.

Going to be a cold one today but not as bad as Friday. It will be sunny, with a high of 24 degrees at 2pm. 11 degrees below normal. North wind 5 to 7 mph. A year ago, we had snow and a high of 39 degrees. The record high of 54 was set in 1895. 7.8 inches of snow fell back in 2008.

The sun will set at 4:24 pm with dusk around 4:56 pm, which is 26 seconds later than yesterday. Today will have 9 hours and 2 minutes of daylight, a decrease of 7 seconds over yesterday. Wednesday, the first day of winter is the shortest day of the year, when we will be down to about 9 hours and 1 minute of daylight. Staten Island has the most day light on that day of the year compared to all other municipalities. Massena, especially the part north of the 45th parallel at Robert Moses State Park, has the shortest day on the first day of winter.

Tonight will be mostly clear, with a low of 8 degrees at 6am. 12 degrees below normal. Light and variable wind becoming south around 5 mph after midnight. In 2015, it got down to 26 degrees with periods of snow. The record low of -19 occurred back in 1951.

Looking ahead to the most frigid part of January 2017, there are 4 weeks until Martin Luther King Day when the sun will be setting at 4:49 pm with dusk at 5:20 pm. On that day in 2016, we had rain, snow and temperatures between 40 and 29 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 30 degrees. We hit a record high of 62 back in 1995.