I bet the authorities in Boston wouldn’t approve of dumping source separated organic waste into the Boston harbor these days.

Good morning! Snow flurries and 32 degrees at the Elm Ave Park and Ride. ❄ There is a south-southeast breeze at 6 mph. 🍃. There are 2 inches of snow on the ground. ☃ ️The skies will clear tomorrow around 7 am.

I decided that I would take the bus 🚍 in as it’s pretty wet with the fresh snow 🌨️ we got last night and I don’t know if it will turn to rain ☔ by evening. It wouldn’t matter that much if I didn’t have a two mile ride back downtown at the end of the day. Tomorrow is going to be a much better day for riding to work 🚴.

Today will have a chance of snow before 9am, then a chance of rain and snow between 9am and 11am, then a chance of drizzle after 11am. Mostly cloudy 🌧, with a high of 41 degrees at 3pm. Three degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around December 8th. South wind 6 to 9 mph. Chance of precipitation is 40%. Total daytime snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible. A year ago, we had light rain in the morning, which became light snow by afternoon. The high last year was 35 degrees. The record high of 61 was set in 2021. 9.5 inches of snow fell back in 1981.❄

Solar noon 🌞 is at 11:52 am with sun having an altitude of 24.1° from the due south horizon (-46.8° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 13.4 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 3:38 pm with the sun in the southwest (231°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-southwest (238°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 4:24 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 25 seconds with dusk around 4:55 pm, which is 18 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 The best time to look at the stars is after 5:32 pm. At sunset, look for rain 🌧 and temperatures around 40 degrees. There will be a south-southeast breeze at 8 mph. Today will have 9 hours and 7 minutes of daytime, a decrease of 22 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will rain likely with a chance of drizzle before 1am, then rain, mainly between 1am and 5am. ☔ Temperature rising to around 47 by 2am. South wind 9 to 14 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible. In 2023, we had light snow in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 31 degrees. The record low of 8 occurred back in 1942.

Today in 1965, the Vietnam War would escalate. 🪖General William Westmoreland sends U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara a request for 243,000 more men by the end of 1966. 🇻🇳And in Cleveland, Ohio becomes the first major American city to default on its financial obligations since the Great Depression. 🏭 But Kusinach saved public power in the city, even if it didn’t make the creditors very happy.

Cool this weekend with temperatures running 14 degrees below normal but otherwise sunny. 🥶 Saturday, partly sunny, with a high near 27. Sunday, mostly sunny, with a high near 19. Typical average high for the weekend is 37 degrees.

Looking ahead, next Monday is Festivus 🍖 when the sun will be setting at 4:27 pm with dusk at 4:58 pm. On that day in 2023, we had rain and temperatures between 53 and 9 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 36 degrees. We hit a record high of 64 back in 1990.