Good morning! It’s Presidents Day. The Presidential Election can’t get over soon enough. It is currently mostly cloudy and zero degrees in Delmar.

Today will have a chance of snow, mainly after 3pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 26. Wind chill values as low as -9. South wind 5 to 13 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. Total daytime snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible. Sunset will be at 5:27 pm with twilight at 5:56 pm which is one minute and 18 seconds later then yesterday.

Tonight will have snow before midnight, then snow and sleet between midnight and 1am, then freezing rain after 1am. Temperature rising to around 32 by 5am. Southeast wind 5 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New ice accumulation of around a 0.1 of an inch possible. New snow and sleet accumulation of 1 to 3 inches possible. By morning commutes may be salt covered but mostly rainy and very wet. Mercury may reach the mid 50 by the afternoon.

Today in 1946, ENIAC, the first electronic general-purpose computer, is formally dedicated at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. Also in 2000, Indian Point II nuclear power plant vents a small amount of radioactive steam when a steam generator fails.

Happy Birthday to the late James Schlesinger, secretary of defense during the Dick Nixon, Gerald Ford, and Jimmy Carter administrations in the 1970s.

There are 3 months, 22 days until Best Friends Day.