Good morning! Happy Friday the 13th 🦹on this Make Your Dream Come True Day. 🚜. Honestly I think superstitions can be kind of silly, but I believe in power of compounding and dividends produced over time. ⌚ Everything done today can lead to a better future 🔮 if you so choose. You can’t change the past or even the world 🌎 but you can change yourself and future.

Rain showers and 38 degrees at the Elm Ave Park and Ride. ☔ There is a southwest breeze at 5 mph. 🍃. Temperatures will drop below freezing at around 9 pm. ☃️

Not a real soaking rain 🌧️ but I decided to skip the 6:45 am morning walk 🚶 in favor of catching the earlier express bus 🚍 downtown and walking inside the Concourse with the muzzle on. 😷 Last night was also raining so I stayed home 🏡 but I got my steps 👣 in earlier in the day. That said I’m thinking about increasing my steps goal 🥅 as most days I’m exceeding the goal.

Today will have a chance of rain before 4pm, then a slight chance of showers after 4pm. Cloudy 🌧, with a high of 43 degrees at 10am. 10 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around March 9th. Southwest wind 5 to 9 mph becoming northwest in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 20 mph. Chance of precipitation is 50%. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible. A year ago, we had cloudy skies. The high last year was 39 degrees. The record high of 71 was set in 1932. 13.1 inches of snow fell back in 1964.❄

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:05 pm with sun having an altitude of 25.9° from the due south horizon (-44.9° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 12.4 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 4:01 pm with the sun in the southwest (233°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-southwest (241°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 4:45 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 20 seconds with dusk around 5:15 pm, which is one minute and 8 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 The best time to look at the stars is after 5:51 pm. Maybe not today though. At sunset, look for rain 🌧 and temperatures around 37 degrees. There will be a northwest breeze at 9 mph with gusts up to 20mph. Today will have 9 hours and 24 minutes of daytime, an increase of one minute and 30 seconds over yesterday.

I was hoping my December electric bill would be under $100 ⚡ but ultimately it came out to be $101. I forget how cold it was right before Christmas and on the holiday, even though we had that week when I had the heat off. I’m trying to save where I can but it’s hard, especially with inflation and higher energy prices. I guess it’s not a big deal in the grand scheme of things but I hate to waste energy.

Tonight will have a chance of rain and snow showers before 7pm, then a chance of snow showers between 7pm and 2am. Cloudy 🌧, with a low of 27 degrees at 5am. 11 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around March 18th. North wind 8 to 11 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible. In 2022, we had cloudy skies. It got down to 6 degrees. The record low of -24 occurred back in 1957.

Tomorrow will be mostly cloudy 🌥, with a high of 33 degrees at 1pm. Typical for Tomorrow. North wind around 11 mph, with gusts as high as 21 mph. A year ago, we had cloudy skies. The high last year was 32 degrees. The record high of 66 was set in 1932. 9.0 inches of snow fell back in 1999.❄

Then for Sunday, sunny, with a high near 34. ☀ North wind 10 to 13 mph. Typical average high for the weekend is 33 degrees.

Martin Luther King Day looks to be another winner ☀ with a high around 38. Not bad for January at any rate. Still a few weeks off until January.

Should be a good weekend for getting out of town 🌲 but the question on my mind is how far I want to go from. Not a lot of snow around but Saturday is going to be really cold ❄.

Looking ahead, there are 4 weeks until Clean Your Computer Day 🧹 when the sun will be setting at 5:21 pm with dusk at 5:49 pm. On that day in 2022, we had partly cloudy, snow showers and temperatures between 25 and 12 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 35 degrees. We hit a record high of 53 back in 1955.