Good morning! Happy Tuesday. Rise and grind on this Tuesday. I don’t know but I think thr synchronousizer is a bit worn out on second gear. ⚙ I woke up and was like darn still only Tuesday, let’s git r dun.

Mostly cloudy with some clearing to the south at the freezing point. 🌥 There is a light southwest breeze at 3 mph. 🍃. There are 7 inches of snow on the ground. ☃ ️Things will start to thaw out at around 9 am. 🌡️

Nice morning today especially to the south 🌅, with lots of red. I was actually out walking 🚶 before 6:45 which is unusual for me on these dark mornings but it helped that I had the left over pancakes 🥞 and sausage and coffee ☕ from yesterday that I could just reheat. Fewer calories, time saved, and less trash – what’s not to like?

That said, I think I’m going to put a fruit bowl 🍐 🍏 in my office so mid-morning if I’m hungry or feeling a bit light headed I can have a bit to eat. One of the reasons I’ve been doing the big breakfasts – besides availability and not wanting to waste 🗑 – is sometimes I feel light headed by lunch time. I can always keep an extra container to bring home the banana 🍌 peels and apple rins for compost.

The communications line the came down yesterday 📞 still hasn’t been repaired. I assumed it was a copper cable line abandoned by the telephone company but it looks like fiber as there is no wires in the cable. I bet there are unhappy customers but it doesn’t impact me as the police officer 👮 tossed it off the road and sidewalk. I’ve noticed most of the underground 🚇 copper phone repeaters locally have been smashed and grabbed for their copper. Apparently Verizon doesn’t use them or care any more and copper is valuable as scrap. I guess it’s recycling ♻.

Today will be mostly cloudy 🌥, with a high of 37 degrees at 3pm. Five degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around February 18th. West wind 7 to 14 mph. A year ago, we had sunny skies in the morning with some clearing in the afternoon. The high last year was 20 degrees. The record high of 54 was set in 1999. 7.6 inches of snow fell back in 1948.❄

Ironing my muzzle and shirt 🕴️showering 🚿 and it’s off to work. Probably another busy day ahead.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:08 pm with sun having an altitude of 28.1° from the due south horizon (-42.7° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 11.2 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 4:16 pm with the sun in the west-southwest (237°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-southwest (244°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 4:58 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 14 seconds with dusk around 5:28 pm, which is one minute and 16 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At dusk you’ll see the Waxing Crescent 🌒 Moon in the southwest (223°) at an altitude of 27° from the horizon, 229,352 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 6:03 pm. At sunset, look for mostly cloudy skies ☁ and temperatures around 36 degrees. There will be a west breeze at 11 mph. Tomorrow will have 9 hours and 46 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 6 seconds over today.

Tonight will be mostly cloudy 🌥, with a low of 20 degrees at 6am. Five degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around February 23rd. West wind 5 to 9 mph becoming light north after midnight. In 2022, we had mostly clear skies in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 5 degrees. The record low of -12 occurred back in 1963.

Going to snow 🌨 again tomorrow but only an inch or two, so whatever the buses 🚍 will be running. Probably won’t last for long especially with rain and warmer conditions expected come Thursday. Should help clean up the sidewalks the rain, assuming it doesn’t freeze up to black ice. Hopefully the town will plow again today and lay down some salt.

Cloudy and mild for the weekend. 🌥 Saturday, mostly cloudy, with a high near 40. Sunday, cloudy, with a high near 37. Typical average high for the weekend is 33 degrees. I’m still undecided about the weekend though I need to decide today if I can want a personal day come Friday m

Looking ahead, there are 3 weeks until Valentines Day ❤️ when the sun will be setting at 5:27 pm with dusk at 5:54 pm. On that day in 2022, we had mostly cloudy, snow showers and temperatures between 28 and 15 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 36 degrees. We hit a record high of 63 back in 1946.