Good morning! Where did November go? It was washed away by all the rain and snow. Three weeks to First Day of Winter ☃️. Mostly cloudy and 32 degrees in Albany. ☁ Calm wind. Bare ground and a few piles of snow around. Freezing now, things will start to thaw out at around 10 am. 🌡️

A mild but gray day, heading downtown on an big long articulated bus downtown. Must be fun driving the big articulated bus down Delaware Avenue. 🚌 Running a few minutes late as the driver has to go slower with the big boat. Lots of room.

Today will have a chance of rain and snow, mainly after 3pm. Mostly cloudy 🌧, with a high of 36 degrees at 1pm. Six degrees below normal, which is similiar to a typical day around December 14th. Calm wind. Chance of precipitation is 30%. Little or no snow accumulation expected. A year ago, we had mostly cloudy skies, clearing in the afternoon. The high last year was 45 degrees. The record high of 67 was set in 1933. 7.1 inches of snow fell back in 1972.❄

The sun will set at 4:22 pm with dusk around 4:54 pm, which is 21 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌇 At sunset, look for rain 🌧 and snow 🌨 and temperatures around 35 degrees. There will be a calm wind. Today will have 9 hours and 17 minutes of daytime, a decrease of one minute and 25 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will be mostly cloudy 🌥, with a low of 27 degrees at 5am. Typical for tonight. Calm wind. In 2017, we had cloudy skies with some clearing in the early hours of the next day. It got down to 31 degrees. The record low of -5 occurred back in 1875.

I received my usual Friday text message bank balance and I panicked for a second when I saw my rent check for December hadn’t been deposited yet, but I confirmed it with the bank that it was sent. 🏡 If I don’t get notified by the end of the weekend I’ll reach out to the landlord.

Slept funny last night and woke up a bit congested 😫but I’m feeling better as the day progresses. After being out of town for work than coming back I often get sick but I don’t think I have a cold.

Last day for that online only special for the USB hub, 🔌so I should make a decision on it soon. I really don’t know. I’m hesitant to but it, I hate spending money that I don’t have to spend.

Tomorrow I’m thinking about hiking out to Five Rivers. It looks like the rain will come fairly early on Saturday night and be a cold wet rain my morning, so I don’t think I’ll head out of town. 💦 Maybe though it will eat away at the snow. I haven’t looked at next week’s forecast, I should read up more about it.

As previously noted, there are 3 weeks until First Day of Winter ☃️ when the sun will be setting at 4:24 pm with dusk at 4:56 pm. On that day in 2017, we had snow, mostly sunny skies and temperatures between 32 and 21 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 34 degrees. We hit a record high of 59 back in 1957.