Good morning! What day is it? Hump Day, of course. Currently we have light snow fog/mist and 30 degrees in Albany. The sun is peaking out of the heavy clouds giving some pretty light filtering down on the recently fallen snow.

Today will have snow showers likely, mainly before 11am. Cloudy, with a high near 36. West wind 5 to 8 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. Total daytime snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible.

Sunset will be at 5:20 pm with twilight at 5:49 pm which is one minute and 19 seconds later then yesterday. Tonight will be a chance of snow showers. Cloudy, with a low around 21. West wind 8 to 13 mph. Chance of precipitation is 40%. New snow accumulation of less than one inch possible.

There are 3 months, 27 days until Best Friends Day. This means you have lots of time in the meantime to practice being a best friend.

Nine years ago today, Senator Barack Hussain Obama announced he was going to run for president. Often seen as a long shot, he won the Iowa Caucus about 10 months later and would be quickly cast on the national scene as our first black president during the worst recession of a generation. He would go on to serve two terms and pass a major health care reform law.

It seems like that is all recent history, but time sure goes by quickly. A year from now will have been a decade since graduating from college. I guess when you catch a bus downtown every day and go to work, time goes by quickly. Those 31 years and 11 months until retirement will come quickly.

The weekend looks to be frigid. No camping for me despite the long weekend. Thinking about going to the Adirondack Outdoorsman Show on Saturday but only if the roads don’t look icy. I don’t know what the weather will be for the weekend as relates to lake effect, but I haven’t driven on icy roads in nearly a decade, so I’m not interested in learning.