Good evening! Light snow and 31 degrees in Delmar. ❄ A very fine snow, not really accumulating on the ground as the air is very dry. Calm wind.There is 3.5 inches of snow on the ground. ☃ With the dry air and warmer temperatures it was melting fast today, in the burbs it’s not expected to last until we get more snow tomorrow. ️Things will start to thaw out at tomorrow around 2 am as temperatures warm over night. 🌡️

Tonight will be periods of snow before 3am, then a chance of rain, snow, and sleet between 3am and 4am, then a chance of rain after 4am. 🌨 Low of 31 degrees at 10pm. Typical for tonight. Calm wind. Chance of precipitation is 80%. Total nighttime snow and sleet accumulation of around an inch possible. In 2017, we had light rain in the evening, remaining overcast into the early morning. It got down to 33 degrees. The record low of 12 occurred back in 1972.

Tonight will have a Waxing Gibbous Moon 🌔 with 82% illuminated. The moon will set at 2:35 am. The Beaver Moon 🌕 is on Thanksgiving night with scattered snow showers for your turkey trotting. The sun will rise at 6:51 am with the first light at 6:21 am, which is one minute and 14 seconds later than yesterday. 🌄 Tonight will have 14 hours and 22 minutes of darkness, an increase of 2 minutes and one second over last night. That’s depressing as we get closer to winter, not that you wouldn’t notice with all the cold weather and predicted snow in the forecast. Wednesday and Thursday will be nice, just very cold.

Tomorrow will have a chance of rain and snow, mainly before 9am. Mostly cloudy 🌧, with a high of 41 degrees at 1pm. Six degrees below normal, which is similiar to a typical day around December 1st. Always like to keep it in context. Calm wind becoming northwest around 5 mph in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible. A year ago, we had cloudy skies. The high last year was 52 degrees. The record high of 71 was set in 1921. 4.2 inches of snow fell back in 1914.❄

I went out to a my parents house for Sunday dinner. Mom made her world famous lasagna and like usual it was pretty good. 🍝 I mean I probably could make something similar like that if I wanted but probably not as good as mom makes it. I also did my wash and sheets, the first time my sheets have been done since September, but I was gone for nearly two months.

Went for my evening walk. 🏃At first my the sleet hitting my face was cold but in the end wasn’t that bad. I also stepped on a thumb tack earlier today which hurt a bit now but wasn’t so bad for most of the day. It was in deep and a bit difficult to pull out but I think it will be good although I really should get my MMP booster or whatever it’s called especially when you hear about the kids getting whopping cough from school and getting very sick.

I worked up some scripts on my computer tonight that allows me to mark YouTube videos and then download them in the background, so I can take them home from the library with ease. 🎥 This way I can watch them at home without an internet connection. My script is simple enough to use – I copy the video location into my clipboard, hit meta – c and it will mark the address in a file then ask if I want to download all the marked video into my home watching folder. Works well. If I hit yes, it uses the YOUTUBE-DL script to scrape the page and download the video then once all the marked videos are downloaded it opens them up in vlc player. No advertising this way and I can watch them at home whenever without internet.

Tomorrow night I want to start building the permanent board for my Lolin32 based sign display board driver and maybe start working on the warm white led strip lamp that will set above my bed and eventually provide light for reading and waking up on the dark winter mornings. I still need to get a power supply for that but ultimately I expect it will be Arduino Nano controlled and use a Bluetooth connection to communicate with the colored lights on the other side of the room to control timing and turning it on and off. I’ll use the infrared TV remote I bought a while back for both with the bright warm white led light coming on automatically each morning to help make dark mornings more pleasant to awaken in.

Right now, a split verdict on the weekend. 😕 Saturday, a chance of rain and snow showers. Partly sunny, with a high near 37. Chance of precipitation is 30%. Sunday, a chance of rain and snow showers. Cloudy, with a high near 39. Chance of precipitation is 40%. Typical average high for the weekend is 44 degrees. It’s going to be another cold and gray week, I will probably stay in town again. I do need to get my truck inspected at some point.

In four weeks on December 16 the sun will be setting at 4:23 pm,🌄 which is 6 minutes and 39 seconds earlier then tonight. In 2017 on that day, we had snow, cloudy skies and temperatures between 31 and 11 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 36 and 21 degrees. The record high of 55 degrees was set back in 1971.

Looking ahead, First Sunday of Advent ✝️ is in 2 weeks, Earliest Sunset of the Year ⌛️ is in 3 weeks, St. Patrick’s Day 🍀 is in 17 weeks, 7:30 PM Sunset 🌇 is in 20 weeks, Palm Sunday 🌴 is in 21 weeks, Average High is 60 🌼 is in 5 months, 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.