Happy Weekend! Going home time. Buses are running, the lights are still running, and the sun set. We have a new president with new ideas. Traffic is moving smoothly. Other than that, the weekend is here under partly cloudy skies and 40 degrees in City of Albany. There is a south-southeast breeze at 6 mph. The skies will clear Wednesday around 4 am.

Tonight will have a chance of rain, mainly between 8pm and midnight. Cloudy, with a low of 38 degrees at 7pm. 24 degrees above normal. South wind 5 to 7 mph. Chance of precipitation is 40%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. In 2016, it got down to 16 degrees under mostly clear skies. The record low of -18 occurred back in 1994.

Waning Crescent Moon tonight with 42% illuminated. The moon will rise around 12:07 am. The New Moon is on Saturday, January 28th with mostly cloudy expected. The Full “Snow” Moon is on Saturday, February 11th. The sun will rise at 7:18 am with the first light at 6:48 am, which is 41 seconds earlier then yesterday. Tonight will have 14 hours and 23 minutes of darkness, a decrease of 1 minutes and 58 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will be mostly cloudy, with a high of 50 degrees at 4pm. 20 degrees above normal. Light and variable wind becoming south around 5 mph. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies and a high of 32 degrees. The record high of 61 was set in 2006. 7.2 inches of snow fell back in 1990.

Sounds like a nice day. I might go out hiking locally, I got to consider my options. I could go camping but I don’t think that is likely. Not sure where I will go but I have a lot of options. 

In four weeks on February 17 the sun will be setting at 5:30 pm, which is 36 minutes later then tonight. In 2016 on that day, we had snow and temperatures between 37 and 28 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 35 and 18 degrees. The record high of 60 degrees was set back in 1981.

Looking ahead, Presidents Day is in 1 month, St. Patrick’s Day is in 8 weeks, Good Friday is in 12 weeks, Arbor Day is in 14 weeks, Cinco de Mayo is in 15 weeks and Memorial Day Weekend is in 18 weeks.