Good morning! Merry Christmas 🎅! Yes, you are still allowed to say that in Trump’s America. That said, don’t say that next Wednesday or you’ll look absurd on the first day of 2020. Next Wednesday is New Years Day 🎉 . I’ll be having coffee ☕ and tearing down camp ⛺ around this time next week.

So, yes a Merry Christmas to you 🎄. Keep Christ in Christmas. It’s a good excuse to have a bonfire 🔥 with all that wrapping paper 📦 and Styrofoam that of course after dark to avoid the black smoke 💨 and when the wind is blowing the opposite way of the obnoxious neighbor a quarter mile down the road. ⛲ And celebrate Christ 🎂 who was born in a manager full of hay when the cow and goats were kicked out of his barn. 🐮 I bet all that was compostable and Jesus’ 👶 bedding was spread on the fields and allowed to rot into fertilizer that made the corn 🌽 grow better than it otherwise would. ➕ Miracle grow. Those manure spreaders with the vertical beaters really do a good at getting an even spread of the organic matter compared to the old style spreaders but they probably weren’t as common in Jesus’ time. 💩

But this morning has times of clouds and sun around thirty degrees in Delmar, NY. Calm wind. Maybe not all that impressive of a White Christmas. ❄ There are 1.5 inches of snow on the ground. ☃ Probably that’s racist nowadays. Especially with climate change and all those boys and girls in Pennsyltucky and Missouri making black smoke. 🌎 ️Things will start to thaw out at around 11 am. 🌡️ See already the planet, as defined by Albany, the center of the universe 🌌 is getting warmer.

Christmas Day 🎄 will be a nice one, mostly sunny 🌞, with a high of 39 degrees at 2pm. Six degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around December 7th. I’ll take such nice weather. Calm wind becoming south around 6 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 35 degrees. The record high of 66 was set in 1889. 19.2 inches of snow fell back in 2002.❄ Funny thing is that I don’t really remember that snow storm when I was a sophomore in college. 🎓

The sun will set at 4:27 pm with dusk around 4:59 pm, which is 37 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 So that much later. I’ll get fifteen plus minutes in Finger Lakes. At sunset, look for partly sunny skies 🌃 and temperatures around 38 degrees. There will be a south breeze at 5 mph. Today will have 9 hours and 3 minutes of daytime, an increase of 14 seconds over yesterday.

I should get out and do something fun today but I have like no fuel ⛽ in my truck and I don’t know if they sell gasoline on the Christmas 🎄 or maybe that is just my excuse not to spend any money on the holiday. It might be fun to ski at Partridge Run as they still have snow up there. 🎿 I guess my parents are making Christmas dinner 🍲 so I’ll go out there and maybe I can stop somewhere on the way out there. Depends on how nice the weather is. I’ll have plenty of a chance to hike and ski in the Finger Lakes and split wood, etc. 🗻 I can always just get my steps in walking around the neighborhood and riding the excercise bike 🚲.

Tonight will be mostly cloudy 🌥, with a low of 24 degrees at 6am. Six degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around December 9th. Light and variable wind. In 2018, we had mostly clear skies in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 19 degrees. The record low of -17 occurred back in 1914.

Now it looks like Monday will be wetter then Sunday, especially in the Finger Lakes. 💦 Saturday, partly sunny, with a high near 41. Should be a good day for the drive and setting up camp. ⛺ Sunday, a chance of rain after 1pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 50 in the Finger Lakes. Chance of precipitation is 50%. Still not expecting a wash out but it might be a good day for reading 📖 and cooking 🍳 at camp. And having a fire and burning stuff. 🔥 Typical average high for the weekend is 32 degrees. Freezing cold but I won’t be with my big ass heater.

As previously noted, next Wednesday is New Years Day 2020 🎉 when I’ll be heading back home 🏡 and the sun will be setting at 4:32 pm with dusk at 5:04 pm in the Albany. On that day in 2019, we had mostly cloudy, a rather mild day with rain showers and temperatures between 53 and 27 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 31 degrees. We hit a record high of 57 back in 1966.