The last express bus is heading downtown on this damp and cloudy morning. The mercury reads around thirty-six on our way up to 41. Less fog now but it is a bit foggier in the city. More sun later? Busy day on tap but hopefully I’ll be home at a reasonable hour tonight. Should at least be a mild day in a corrosive kind of way. 

The sun will set at 4:53 pm with dusk around 5:23 pm, which is 1 minute and 14 seconds later than yesterday. Today will have 9 hours and 33 minutes of daylight, an increase of 1 minute and 52 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will have patchy fog after 4am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with a low of 28 degrees at 6am. 14 degrees above normal. Northwest wind 5 to 7 mph becoming calm after midnight. A fairly mild evening but I expect it to remain fairly damp but I could be wrong. In 2016, it got down to 16 degrees under mostly cloudy skies. The record low of -22 occurred back in 1970.

As previously noted, there are 2 weeks until Ground Hog Day when the sun will be setting at 5:11 pm with dusk at 5:41 pm. On that day in 2016, we had partly sunny skies and temperatures between 46 and 29 degrees. I hope we have a Ground Hog day that nice, although that means six more weeks of winter. Typically, the high temperature is 32 degrees. We hit a record high of 53 back in 1981.

Not sure about my weekend plans, I guess a lot depends on the weather. I do have the Save the Pine Bush hike I’m leading on Sunday at 1 pm. I could go camping but I think that’s unlikely. Maybe hiking locally on Saturday. I don’t have a lot I need to accomplish this weekend. Maybe catch up on sleep? I don’t know. 

I’m almost to work. Have a great day and don’t forget tomorrow is Friday…