“Remember kids, Ground Hogs are unprotected species, farm pests. Punxsy better do the right thing or his family members might just get it come when it finally warms up and they come out of their burrows.” 

Good evening! Partly cloudy and 36 degrees in City of Albany. There is a west breeze at 13 mph with gusts up to 26 mph. Those gusts are cold. The skies will clear around 5 pm.

Waxing Crescent Moon tonight with 37% illuminated. The moon will set around 11:58 pm. The First Quarter Moon is on Saturday night with mostly cloudy expected. The Full “Snow” Moon is on Saturday, February 11th. The sun will rise at 7:07 am with the first light at 6:38 am, which is 1 minutes and 5 seconds earlier then yesterday. Tonight will have 13 hours and 57 minutes of darkness, a decrease of 2 minutes and 25 seconds over last night.

Tonight will be partly cloudy, with a low of 21 degrees at 5am. Six degrees above normal. West wind 5 to 9 mph becoming calm. Winds could gust as high as 20 mph. In 2016, it got down to 29 degrees under partly clear skies. The record low of -18 occurred back in 1961.

Right now, a split verdict on the weekend. Saturday, partly sunny, with a high near 29. Sunday, a chance of snow after 1pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 33. Chance of precipitation is 30%.Typical average high for the weekend is 32 degrees.

In four weeks on March 1 the sun will be setting at 5:45 pm, which is 36 minutes later then today. In 2016 on that day, we had rain and temperatures between 38 and 21 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 39 and 21 degrees. The record high of 61 degrees was set back in 1991.

Looking ahead, March 1st is a month away, Ides of March is in 6 weeks, April Fools Day is in 2 months, Average High is 60 is in 11 weeks, May Day is in 3 months, Start of June is in 4 months, Flag Day is in 19 weeks and Summer is in 20 weeks.