Delicious, basic wholewheat bread — flour, water, yeast and a bit of salt, were baking in the oven along with spaghetti squash. Stove top there was onions and shredded broccoli frying soon to be cooked up with eggs and mushrooms, Cajun bean soup simmering away. Good breakfast, which will be followed by a delcious dinner when I get home.

Good morning! What day is it? Hump Day, of course. Snow flurries and 24 degrees in Delmar, NY for the bike ride in. ❄ Calm wind.There is a dusting of snow on the ground. ☃ Things will start to thaw out at around 11 am. 🌡️

Not a terribly cold but not a wonderful day for a bike ride in. 🚲 Less snow and ice on parts of the bike trail today compared to yesterday, though neither day was the ride impaired. Stopped at Hannaford as I had to get cookies for a colleague’s birthday 🎂 in the office. Also got scrubby pads as I lost one when I was taking down camp in the snow in over the weekend, 🚰 wanted to get spices but they didn’t have a good selection or good prices. Also it seemed like even the bakery was overpriced at Hannaford. 🍪 I should have just ridden up to Market 32 at lunch time. I bet they’d have the spices I need. But I’ll make due for now and put it on my list should I go to Wally World this weekend. 🤷

Today will have a slight chance of snow showers before 8am. Partly sunny 🌞, with a high of 37 degrees at 2pm. Seven degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around December 18th. Southwest wind 3 to 8 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%. Cool day ahead but sunny except for the flurries around. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies in the morning, becoming cloudy in the afternoon. The high last year was 38 degrees. The record high of 66 was set in 2005. 3.3 inches of snow fell back in 1945. ❄

Solar noon 🌞 is at 11:45 am 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 12.3 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 3:41 pm with the sun in the southwest (234°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-southwest (241°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 4:25 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 19 seconds with dusk around 4:55 pm, which is 25 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌇 The best time to look at the stars is after 5:31 pm. At sunset, look for partly cloudy skies 🌃 and temperatures around 34 degrees. There will be a south breeze at 7 mph. Tomorrow will have 9 hours and 22 minutes of daytime, a decrease of one minute and 28 seconds over today.

Tonight will be partly cloudy 🌃 , with a low of 26 degrees at 6am. One degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical night around December 3rd. Southeast wind around 6 mph. In 2022, we had mostly clear skies in the evening, which became light drizzle by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 30 degrees. The record low of -10 occurred back in 1875.

Kind of cloudy and rainy this weekend. 🌥☔ 😞 Saturday, a chance of rain. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 42. Chance of precipitation is 30%. Sunday, a chance of rain. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 44. Chance of precipitation is 40%. Typical average high for the weekend is 43 degrees. It’s fine, I didn’t have any big plans for the weekend, just let it go by, do some more of the Udemy classes, fix the wiring issue in my truck. 

As previously noted, next Wednesday is Saint Nicholas Day 🎅 when the sun will be setting at 4:23 pm with dusk at 4:53 pm. On that day in 2022, we had rain showers, partly cloudy, mild and temperatures between 54 and 39 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 41 degrees. We hit a record high of 68 back in 2001.