Good evening! Modestly heavy snow and 25 degrees in Delmar. ❄ At least a half foot so far has fallen in Delmar, I probably should have moved my truck but at least I made it back to Delmar before the roads got slick. There is a north-northeast breeze at 6 mph. 🍃. Things will start to thaw out at tomorrow around 9 am. 🌡️

Tonight will snow. The snow could be heavy at times. 🌨 Low of 25 degrees at 11pm. Seven degrees below normal, which is similiar to a typical night around December 5th. Cool but not outrageously cold. North wind 6 to 8 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. Total nighttime snow accumulation of 4 to 8 inches possible. I bet it will be on the high end of the range. In 2017, we had mostly cloudy skies. It got down to 39 degrees. The record low of 7 occurred back in 1972.

Tonight will have a Waxing Gibbous Moon 🌔 with 56% illuminated. The moon will set at 12:00 am. The Beaver Moon 🌕 is on Thanksgiving next Thursday with mostly cloudy skies. The sun will rise at 6:47 am with the first light at 6:17 am, which is one minute and 15 seconds later than yesterday. 🌄 Tonight will have 14 hours and 16 minutes of darkness, an increase of 2 minutes and 8 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will snow before 10am, then rain and snow likely between 10am and noon, then a chance of rain after noon. 🌧 High of 39 degrees at 2pm. Nine degrees below normal, which is similiar to a typical day around December 6th. Northwest wind 5 to 13 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New snow accumulation of 1 to 2 inches possible. Seems like it’s mostly a night storm for us, not going to be a big deal for the morning commute. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies. The high last year was 53 degrees. A big contrast to today. Very cold and icy by evening day. The record high of 71 was set in 2006. 3.4 inches of snow fell back in 2002.❄

Cool this weekend with temperatures running 9 degrees below normal but otherwise sunny. 😀 Saturday, partly sunny, with a high near 42. West wind 7 to 9 mph. Sunday, a slight chance of snow showers after 1pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 35. Chance of precipitation is 20%. Typical average high for the weekend is 47 degrees. I’ll take the sun. I may head up north this weekend, I’m still thinking about it but there will be a lot of snow up there.

I was looking at the snow accumulation data earlier today ⛄and except for the snow belt there isn’t a ton of snow across the state. The deepest snow were in Essex County state wide and even there was only 8 inches. It looks like last weekend I could have gone up to the East Branch and only had a few inches of snow to deal with their up north.

Cooperstown was a fun trip for few days 👨 but I did most of the driving after dark so I missed most of the landscape but I was surprised how many relatively big dairy farms are located along the Susquehanna River right south of Cooperstown. 🐄 I thought the valley was pretty narrow down there but it clearly has some good soils from the river valley. It was dusk when I was driving back tonight before the snow kicked in, and it was pretty with the snow covered hills along Interstate 88. I would have preferred to have more light to enjoy the scenery and maybe taken the back roads but sometimes you don’t get to choose the hours for a work trip. Still those hills are beautiful along 88, although I can only imagine how bad they’d be if everything was icy. The wind and sleet were bad enough on Tuesday and it was above freezing the whole time, although not by much.

I heard they had really bad ice in Albany yesterday but at least I was out of town so I missed that.❄ Just snow on and off where I was and some sleet on Tuesday there never stuck to the treated roads although viability at times was marginal especially on NY 28.

Next time I’m out that way again I’m going to have to go back to the Cooperstown dinner. 🍔 I really liked that place a lot, just because the food was good, it was small, quiet and non fancy. If we get a warm up in December I may head back out that way and visit Glimmerglass State Park then camp at Charles Baker State Forest. Maybe do it on a weekend when Hyde Hall 🏤is open for tours although I don’t know if it’s open in the winter as I doubt it has centralized heat. Historic sites are a lot of fun to tour.

I do find those small towns so charming, although I always wonder what I could do for a living in such a place. Camping trips put that way are fun and business trips to places like that are much more fun than the city. But then again I doubt I’d ever want to set roots down in a place like New York especially when you can just go south of the New York Pennsylvania border and have much more freedom and pay less for everything besides maybe gasoline, thanks to Governor Tom the Turkey and his Republican legislator that at least the state canned the turkey over Act 72 or whatever that big gas tax hike was. ⛽The hills of Northern Appalachia in the Pennsylvania Wild Region are so pretty, they really do extend north all the way up to Schoharie County when you look at the topography and land forms🗻.

I am very disappointed with the poor sound quality of the ear budsI bought very cheaply at Walmart about two months ago. I wouldn’t have bought such cheap ones but that’s all they had at the Cicero Walmart when I was there. 🎧 What I should do is see if I can find some decent looking ones on Ali Express, order a few of them for a buck or two and if I really like them plunk down like $15 and get a big box of them. I would never buy anything expensive from Ali Express but for simple things like basic electronics components it’s hard to beat Ali.

In four weeks on December 13 the sun will be setting at 4:22 pm,🌄 which is 9 minutes and 55 seconds earlier then tonight. Basically the earliest sunset of year or close to it. In 2017 on that day, we had snow, mostly cloudy skies and temperatures between 22 and 16 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 37 and 22 degrees. The record high of 58 degrees was set back in 1984.

Looking ahead, Thanksgiving 🦃 is in 1 week, Valentines Day ❤️ is in 13 weeks, Ides of March ✝ is in 4 months, Tax Day 💰 is in 5 months, Memorial Day Weekend Starts 🏕️ is in 27 weeks and Dog Days of Summer 🌻 is in 33 weeks.