Talk about a dark start to our Sunday morning with pouring rain coming down, chewing away at the four inches or so of snow on the ground. 43 degrees and a good strong southerly breeze means it feels cold and wet though it’s more wet then cold. 

Next Sunday is Christmas for those of you who keep track of such things. Looks like it will be mild for Christmas Day and it would be fun to spend the day out camping.

Today will start out as rain but change over to snow by afternoon. Rain before 2pm, then a chance of rain and snow showers between 2pm and 3pm, then a slight chance of snow showers after 3pm. Some thunder is also possible. Patchy fog before 10am. High of 46 degrees at 10am. 11 degrees above normal. By 4pm, temperatures will drop to 31 degrees.   Look for 10 degrees by tomorrow morning. Breezy, with a south wind 13 to 23 mph becoming west in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 38 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. Total daytime snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible. 

A year ago, we had clouds and a high of 52 degrees. The record high of 60 was set in 1921. 17 inches of snow fell back in 1887.

The sun will set at 4:24 pm with dusk around 4:56 pm, which is 24 seconds later than yesterday. Today will have 9 hours and 3 minutes of daylight, a decrease of 11 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will be partly cloudy, with a low of 10 degrees at 6am. 10 degrees below normal. Blustery, with a northwest wind 16 to 21 mph decreasing to 8 to 13 mph after midnight. Winds could gust as high as 34 mph. In 2015, it got down to 31 degrees with snow flurries. The record low of -13 occurred back in 1973.

As previously noted, next Sunday is Christmas when the sun will be setting at 4:28 pm with dusk at 5:00 pm. On that day in 2015, we had rain and temperatures between 59 and 35 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 33 degrees. We hit a record high of 66 back in 1889 on Christmas.