“Kind of sloppy out there although the road surfaces seem okay. It will be all rain by evening as we go through our Tuesday. Quite a bit of rain is expected this afternoon to night. If it was ten degrees colder it would be well over a foot of snow.”

Already the snow has turned to sleet and rain  and thanks to aggressive salt treatment the roads are just wet. At 29 degrees the rain will freeze on contact for untreated surfaces but it is quickly expected to rise until we reach around 40 degrees later.

The sun will set at 5:17 pm with dusk around 5:47 pm, which is 1 minutes and 19 seconds later than yesterday. Today will have 10 hours and 16 minutes of daylight, an increase of 2 minutes and 33 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will rain. Low of 37 degrees at 8pm. 21 degrees above normal. Southeast wind 10 to 13 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New precipitation amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible. In 2016, it got down to 25 degrees with periods of snow. The record low of -16 occurred back in 1950.

As previously noted, next Tuesday is Valentines Day when the sun will be setting at 5:27 pm with dusk at 5:55 pm. On that day in 2016, we had sunny skies and temperatures between 8 and -13 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 34 degrees. We hit a record high of 63 back in 1946.