Good morning! Yeah, it’s Second to Last Friday of the year! 🎇 Christmas is next Wednesday. 🎄Two weeks to Latest Sunrise of the Winter 🌄️. Sunny and 9 degrees at the Elm Ave Park & Ride – CDTA. 🌞 There is a northwest breeze at 5 mph. 🍃. With only a slight breeze and a bright 🔆 sun it’s a pretty nice morning, not too cold. There are 3 inches of snow on the ground. ☃ ️Things will start to thaw out at Sunday around 11 am. 🌡️

I got listening to my headphone, singing along with My Back Pages,and I didn’t even see the bus pull up aside me. 🎧 I really didn’t mind this morning at all, even if the temperature is officially in the single digits. 🦋 With the sun and breeze we’ve had the past few days, there isn’t much ice on the sidewalks. I almost forget it was already Friday with the Friday driver. 🚌

Today will be sunny 🌞, with a high of 24 degrees at 2pm. 10 degrees below normal. Northwest wind around 6 mph becoming calm in the afternoon. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies in the morning with some clearing in the afternoon. The high last year was 43 degrees. The record high of 61 was set in 1957. 8.4 inches of snow fell back in 1975.❄

The sun will set at 4:24 pm with dusk around 4:56 pm, which is 25 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At sunset, look for clear skies 🌃 and temperatures around 21 degrees. There will be a calm wind. Shouldn’t be a half bad evening but too cold for sitting out back with a glass of apple juice 🍏. Today will have 9 hours and 3 minutes of daytime, a decrease of 9 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will be mostly clear 🌃, with a low of 7 degrees at 2am. 12 degrees below normal. Maximum wind chill around 8 at 12am; Calm wind. Kind of a cold night on tap but warmer than late. In 2018, we had light rain. It got down to 37 degrees. The record low of -18 occurred back in 1942.

Today a train moved very fast in America — that is relatively speaking. In 1967, a Pennsylvania Railroad Budd Metroliner exceeds 155 mph on their New York Division, now Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor. 🚅This was kind of the last hurrah for the Pennsylvania Central , they would merge with their competitors New York Central and be bankrupt by 1970. 🚉While the railroads had many fatal blows it was the interstates that killed off at least the passenger service. Eventually with a lot of government help the freight railroads turned around and became fairly healthy.

Tomorrow will be partly sunny 🌞, with a high of 29 degrees at 2pm. Five degrees below normal. Calm wind becoming south 5 to 7 mph in the afternoon. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies in the morning with some clearing in the afternoon. The high last year was 62 degrees. The record high of 62 was set in 2018. 6.6 inches of snow fell back in 2008.❄

It should be a nice day for the Save the Pine Bush Ski, 🌲🌾🌲🌲🎿 with lots of sun ☀ and not so cold. I cleaned off my truck and the solar panel so I’m hoping with today’s sun the batteries will get topped off I shouldn’t have to use the ice scraper in the morning or worry about throwing ice ❄.

Looking ahead to Sunday, mostly sunny, with a high near 39. South wind around 5 mph. Typical average high for the weekend is 34 degrees. That should be a nice day for hooking up that voltage switch and testing it out with lots of sun. Maybe in the afternoon I’ll go skiing at Five Rivers — I think we will loose most of the snow come mid-week, they’re might not even be enough for good skiing on Christmas Eve. 🏕But maybe my camping trip in the Finger Lakes will be snow free. I’m just hoping it won’t be too muddy.

As previously noted, there are 2 weeks until Latest Sunrise of the Winter 🌄️ when the sun will be setting at 4:34 pm with dusk at 5:05 pm. On that day in 2019, we had snow showers, mostly cloudy, mild and temperatures between 43 and 32 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 31 degrees. We hit a record high of 61 back in 1913.