Good evening! Kind of a cold wet evening commute with some modestly heavy rain and temperatures around 35 degrees in the City of Albany. There is a east-northeast breeze at 6 mph. Glad I wore my rain coat. 

Heavy traffic leaving the city tonight as everybody is back to work after the holidays and because everybody has to drive a bit slower because the roads are wet and somewhat slick. Traffic grinds along but I’m not in a rush to get home except maybe to play with my new vacuum cleaner. Unlike the old one it doesn’t create vast clouds of dust. 

The Christmas Cactus is in full bloom. At least for two of the four blooms are looking really nice. I never got around to taking a picture but maybe tomorrow. We will see. 

This evening into tonight will continue to rain, mainly before 2am. Near constant temperatures around 35 or 36 all night long.18 degrees above normal. Northeast wind 5 to 7 mph becoming light and variable after midnight. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New precipitation amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible. In 2016, it got down to 6 degrees with periods of snow. The record low of -15 occurred back in 1904.

Waxing Crescent Moon tonight with 40% illuminated. The moon will set around 12:08 am. The First Quarter Moon is on Wednesday night with slight chance of snow expected. The Full “Wolf” Moon is on Wednesday night.

Tomorrow looks to be quite cloudy with a chance of showers by afternoon and a high of 42 degrees by around 2pm. Not a terribly nice day but you’ll at least save on the heat. Colder but much sunnier weather for Thursday into the weekend but temperatures in the 20s.

A sunny but somewhat cool weekend by even early January standards coming up with seasonable temperatures. Saturday, mostly sunny, with a high near 26. Sunday, partly sunny, with a high near 24.Typical average high for the weekend is 31 degrees. A lot will depend on how windy it is those days but it should be bearable outside. Not going camping but might get out and some hiking locally depending on the wind chill. 

In four weeks on January 31 the sun will be setting at 5:08 pm, which is 33 minutes later then tonight. In 2016 on that day, we had mostly cloudy skies and temperatures between 52 and 36 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 32 and 15 degrees. The record high of 58 degrees was set back in 1913.