February 13, 2019 Morning

Good morning! What day is it? The Hump in the Temperature After the Much Hyped Snow and Ice Storm, of course. Honestly I’m pretty amused about it all. Didn’t really impact me much but I live in the suburbs and landlord does the plowing and I don’t have to drive anywhere. I heard God will remove the snow from my truck later in the week. Four weeks to 7 PM Sunset πŸŒ†. Spring is coming or so I tell myself. Clouds with the sun breaking through and 33 and 1/3rd degrees in Delmar. ☁ There is a southwest breeze at 6 mph. πŸƒ. There are 6 inches of icy snow on the ground. β˜ƒ Things will start to thaw out at around 9 am. 🌑️

With the snow yesterday, a lot of people left work early. ❄ I didn’t because I didn’t want to get charged the time and I knew more likely than not with most state workers leaving early traffic would be very light at five, even if the roads were bad. It’s wasn’t a bad commute at all and the buses were on time and snow and sleet stopped for a bit while I caught the bus.πŸšƒΒ I walked down to the express bus today, sidewalks weren’t too bad,Β although I found myself hurrying down to the bus as it was a bit more of a slog then normal and I didn’t quite get out of the door by 8:08 (BOB time, as I like to call it), which is when I should leave by.πŸƒ

Last night, I got home and made a big pot of macaroni and cheese with lots of veggies and a small amount of mayonnaise and hot sauce. 🍲Cooked it up than worked on some GIS things for the blog and some blog posts. I also fixed some code for my LED driver including adding code to trigger the relay for the 120 volt lamp. I decided to skip my evening walk because there was a lot of snow outside, and it was sleeting for most of the night.🚢

Rode the exercise bike for about a half hour watching some YouTube videos I previously downloaded while listening through my Bluetooth headphones. 🚲 I like being able to watch movies without disturbing my neighbors. I know that most of the videos I like are off grid homesteaders and farmers, hunters and trappers so typically it’s not really loud but I like to make sure the noise isn’t too loud. 🎧I try not to ride the bike much past nine in case he can here that two, and I try to cuss less.

Took another sleeping pill last night and tried to get to bed relatively early although not as early as some nights.Β πŸ›Œ But I still feel relatively well rested even if I did wake up for a while during the night. I am ready for winter to be over sooner then later.🌬 I’m ready to sleep with the windows open. 🌫️

We got quite a bit of snow in the evening but my apartment was warm as I left the heat turned up yesterday in case I lost power from the storm. ♨ Going to be above freezing today, so I turned it back down before work. Already it seems like the roads are snow free, we are above freezing, and I expect it to be remain fairly warm in my apartment today, even though the heat is turned down a bit.

Today will continue to be mostly cloudy β›…, with a high of 42 degrees at 12pm. Eight degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around March 10th. That will kill off the remaining snow and ice off the roads do a number of it even on the ground. Nice easy snow storm. West wind 6 to 16 mph, with gusts as high as 34 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. Total daytime snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible. A year ago, we had cloudy in the morning, which became partly cloudy by afternoon. The high last year was 30 degrees. The record high of 58 was set in 1900. 9.0 inches of snow fell back in 1893.❄

The sun will set at 5:25 pm with dusk around 5:54 pm, which is one minute and 19 seconds later than yesterday. πŸŒ‡ At sunset, look for partly cloudy skies 🌨 and temperatures around 35 degrees. Breezy, 16 mph breeze β›… from the west with gusts up to 30mph. Might be cool with the breeze but at least everything will be melting. Today will have 10 hours and 31 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 41 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will be scattered snow showers, mainly before 3am. Mostly cloudy 🌧, with a low of 27 degrees at 5am. 10 degrees above normal, which is similiar to a typical night around March 19th. Maximum wind chill around 15 at 6am; West wind 13 to 18 mph, with gusts as high as 32 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible. In 2018, we had mostly clear in the evening, which became cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 28 degrees. The record low of -13 occurred back in 2016.

Tomorrow will have isolated snow showers before 1pm. Partly sunny 🌦, with a high of 37 degrees at 2pm. Three degrees above normal, which is similiar to a typical day around February 23rd. Breezy, with a west wind 15 to 20 mph decreasing to 7 to 12 mph in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 33 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%. A year ago, we had cloudy in the morning, which became partly cloudy by afternoon. The high last year was 45 degrees. The record high of 63 was set in 1946. 23.5 inches of snow fell back in 1914.❄

The latest weekend weekend forecast looks nice. 😎 Saturday, partly sunny, with a high near 36. Sunday, mostly sunny, with a high near 30. Typical average high for the weekend is 35 degrees. I keep hearing different forecasts for the weekend, but I will have to see how much snow there is and how cold and icy it will be before planning to head out of town or camp.Β πŸ•Β It is a three day weekend, but there is still so much snow up north. Rain on Thursday into Friday might melt away a lot of snow locally, but I doubt that much up north.🌧

In four weeks on March 13 the sun will be setting at 7:00 pm (Daylight Savings Time),πŸŒ„ which is one hour, 34 minutes and 39 seconds later then today. In 2018 on that day, we had snow and temperatures between 34 and 30 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 43 and 24 degrees. The record high of 70 degrees was set back in 2012.

Looking ahead, 7 PM Sunset πŸŒ† is a month away, May πŸ•Š is in 11 weeks, 8:30 PM Sunset ️⛱️ is in 16 weeks, Hottest Time of the Year πŸ˜… is in 5 months and Inauguration Day 2021 πŸ‘΄πŸ» is in 101 weeks.

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