Good evening! Clearing skies, quite mild and 38 degrees in Delmar. 🌝 There is a northwest breeze at 7 mph. 🍃. There are 4 inches of snow on the ground. With the mild temperatures it’s melting quickly locally but there is still a ton up north. ️Temperatures will drop below freezing at tomorrow around 4 am. ☃️

Tonight will have isolated showers before midnight. Mostly cloudy 🌧, with a low of 27 degrees at 6am. Four degrees below normal, which is similiar to a typical night around November 30th, in case you were wondering. Northwest wind around 7 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%. In 2017, we had clear skies. It got down to 21 degrees. The record low of 10 occurred back in 1972.

Tonight will have a Waxing Gibbous Moon 🌔 with 74% illuminated. Lots of moon light this evening, especially late. The moon will set at 1:33 am. The Beaver Moon 🌕 is on Thanksgiving night with a chance of snow showers. Good for a trot after eating all that turkey. The sun will rise at 6:50 am with the first light at 6:19 am, which is one minute and 14 seconds later than yesterday. 🌄 Tonight will have 14 hours and 20 minutes of darkness, an increase of 2 minutes and 4 seconds over last night. Nights really are long this time of year. But then again, days will become this long come six months from now.

I kind of like how I can sit in my bed now and watch a video with my Bluetooth headphones on my laptop and big monitor across the room. 💻 I sometimes like downloading YouTube videos at the library and watching them at home and now I won’t have to worry about bugging my neighbors with the noise.

I got the VMS sign that I have in my bedroom ported over to the ESP32/Lolin32 board I have. Changes were quite minor but now I have a much more powerful board that I can add Bluetooth Connectivity, more messages and graphics to my display. After studying the manual I also figured out how to switch between the graphics drawing mode with the MD MAX72XX library and the MD Parola library.🔑 I knew there was a way to do it, I just had to find it in the documentation and make sure my code was making the switches between the modes cleanly. With the additional power of the lolin32 board there is a lot of possibilities. I think tomorrow I will solder together a board for this purpose on perfboard. I am going to also order some more lolin32 boards from China as they are only slightly more expensive than the Arduino Nano and really don’t use that much more additional power.

Tomorrow will have a slight chance of snow before 3pm, then a slight chance of rain and snow between 3pm and 4pm, then a chance of snow after 4pm. Mostly cloudy 🌧, with a high of 36 degrees at 3pm. 11 degrees below normal, which is similiar to a typical day around December 14th. North wind around 6 mph becoming light and variable. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible. A year ago, we had mostly cloudy skies, clearing in the afternoon. The high last year was 46 degrees. The record high of 71 was set in 1928. 9 inches of snow fell back in 1980.❄

I might go out skiing tomorrow locally, although the snow might be a bit slushy. 🏂I’ll have to think about it a bit more. Depends on how cold it is.

Went for a nice little evening walk tonight, fresh air was nice not too cold or icy. Sidewalks generally were quite clear.🚶

Yes, I have to work on putting up some new maps on the blog. Maybe I’ll work on that tomorrow or maybe early next week. 🌎 I’ve gotten bad at creating new maps and content, doing more other things besides creating interesting content that actually drives people to the blog.

In four weeks on December 15 the sun will be setting at 4:22 pm,🌄 which is 7 minutes and 45 seconds earlier then tonight. In 2017 on that day, we had snow, mostly cloudy skies and temperatures between 22 and 7 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 36 and 21 degrees. The record high of 61 degrees was set back in 2015.

Looking ahead, December 🎄 is in 2 weeks, February 🌧 is in 11 weeks, Ground Hog Day 🐻 is in 11 weeks, St. Patrick’s Day 🍀 is in 4 months, 7:30 PM Sunset 🌇 is in 20 weeks, Palm Sunday 🌴 is in 21 weeks, Easter 🐰 and Earth Day 🌎 is in 22 weeks, Cinco de Mayo 🤠 is in 24 weeks, Mothers Day 👩‍ is in 25 weeks and Fathers Day 👨 is in 30 weeks.