Good morning! Monday’s come back around again. One week to Christmas Eve 🎄🎁. Mostly cloudy and 34 degrees in Delmar. ☁ There is a west-northwest breeze at 7 mph. 🍃. There is a dusting of icy snow on the ground. ☃ ️Temperatures will drop below freezing at around 7 pm. ☃️

I didn’t catch the earlier bus downtown, so now I’m taking the local bus to work 🚈 which is running late because it’s one of those big articulated busses that are simply slower to maneuver through traffic. Not sure why they are running the bendy bus, maybe they need more capacity earlier in the morning with students riding the bus or just otherwise needed to get the big bus back downtown. I hope on icy mornings they won’t be running them. Even with all the technology, the big pusher busses aren’t good in the snow.

Today will have a chance of rain and snow showers, mainly after 2pm. Mostly cloudy 🌧, with a high of 39 degrees at 1pm. Four degrees above normal, which is similiar to a typical day around December 7th. West wind 7 to 16 mph, with gusts as high as 29 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. Little or no snow accumulation expected. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies with more clouds in the afternoon. The high last year was 27 degrees. The record high of 59 was set in 1984. 11.1 inches of snow fell back in 1970.❄

The sun will set at 4:23 pm with dusk around 4:55 pm, which is 21 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At sunset, look for rain 🌧 and snow 🌨 and temperatures around 37 degrees. Breezy, 16 mph from the west-northwest with gusts up to 29mph. Today will have 9 hours and 3 minutes of daytime, a decrease of 17 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will have a slight chance of snow showers before 9pm. Mostly cloudy 🌧, with a low of 20 degrees at 5am. Typical for tonight. Maximum wind chill around 8 at 4am; Northwest wind around 18 mph, with gusts as high as 32 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%. In 2017, we had cloudy skies. It got down to 18 degrees. The record low of -9 occurred back in 1919.

It will be interesting when the first electric CDTA busses come online next year. 🚌 I look forward to the advanced technology, reduction in noise and pollution. Busses have gotten a lot better on all those fronts but the future is electricity. It’s so much better of a technology even if there still are hitches here and there.

But closer to today, I need to get my truck washed tonight and buy new boots and a windshield wiper. 💦Hopefully Wally World won’t be too crazy around 8pm tonight.👢 The slave made boots I buy hold up just as good as the brand name boots I’ve bought in the past. Currently my boots are deplorable but I didn’t want to replace them before sitting next to the campfire, and have new boots melt.

Looking back at my dash cam, the pictures and videos I took driving through Walton weren’t saved 📹 because I’ve been having a problem with the power outlet on my truck. Must be a loose wire. When it warms up, I’ll have to get out there with the test meter. 🗻 Too bad, it’s beautiful country out that way, and I don’t know the next time I’ll get back out that way, although I think I will have to go back. There is some state land up that way where I could camp. ⛺

Looking ahead to the end of the year, there are 2 weeks until New Years Eve 🎆 when the sun will be setting at 4:32 pm with dusk at 5:04 pm. On that day in 2017, we had snow, mostly cloudy skies and temperatures between 8 and -2 degrees. We closed out 2017 very cold as Trump’s first year came to its logical conclusion. Typically, the high temperature is 32 degrees. We hit a record high of 61 back in 1895.