Good evening! A bright moon lit but very cold nights around 19 degrees in Delmar. ❄ There is a northwest breeze at 15 mph. 🍃. The current wind chill is 5. If you bundle up, it’s a fantastic night, no flash light needed but it’s icy in spots. There is a few inches of snow on the ground in parts, some are bare ground too. Lots of black ice around too, I noticed that when I went for my evening walk. Walking it actually didn’t feel so cold. ☃ ️Things will start to thaw out at Saturday around 10 am. 🌡️

Tonight will have a slight chance of snow showers before 11pm. Partly cloudy 🌧, with a low of 8 degrees at 6am. 22 degrees below normal. That’s a pretty cold night even for January. Maximum wind chill around -8 at 6am; Northwest wind around 15 mph. Burr. Cold. Chance of precipitation is 20%. In 2017, we had partly cloudy skies with more clouds in the early hours of the next day. It got down to 34 degrees. The record low of 9 occurred back in 1969.

Tonight will have a Waxing Gibbous Moon 🌔 with 98% illuminated. Basically a full moon and with the snow on the ground and the clear skies its not dark out by any stretch of the imagination at least by night standards. . The moon will set at 5:54 am. The Beaver Moon🌕 will be tomorrow, Thanksgiving. The sun will rise at 6:55 am with the first light at 6:24 am, which is one minute and 12 seconds later than yesterday. 🌄 Tonight will have 14 hours and 28 minutes of darkness, an increase of one minute and 54 seconds over last night.

Thanksgiving Day will be sunny 🌞, with a high of 21 degrees at 1pm. 24 degrees below normal. Maximum wind chill around -8 at 6am; Northwest wind 13 to 16 mph. Cold. Possibly the coldest Thanksgiving on record. But very blue skies. 🗻A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies with more clouds in the afternoon. The high last year was 46 degrees. The record high of 70 was set in 1931. 9.1 inches of snow fell back in 1943.❄

Today was a pretty quiet day at work and I got to leave early so I ended up going for a walk around the neighborhood🏃 both before dusk and after dinner. Took the local home, as I left at three, but honestly I’ve lately been happy with the performance of the express since they changed the route to avoid the delays on Madison Avenue. 🚍Made up a nice big bowl of pasta, with breadcrumbs and meatballs, woke hot sauce, corn and cheese. 🍛Worked on some electronics projects involving Bluetooth📲 and while despite much time playing with the computer I was able to pair my VMS display and my Arduino Nano with my phone. 📡 Not sure what the computer issue is, something is messed up with Linux as the USB dongle I have works fine with other non serial devices. Bluetooth has great with the headphones, I can watch YouTube videos I downloaded at the library earlier in the week from bed from my 23 inch monitor that rarely gets turned on. No complaints about that. I have to admit I enjoy watching videos about electronics, hunting, fishing, agriculture and off grid living. It’s great to learn about the technology and techniques.

I have been a bit tardy at updating the blog the past few days, as the internet stopped working on my laptop, at least at the public library since I upgraded the network driver. 💻It’s never been particularly reliable at the library ever since I got it so tempted to get an inexpensive USB to wifi adapter from China and see how it works.📡 Maybe a few different models as they are so cheap on AliExpress and you never know what is going to work with Linux properly.

Plus it’s mid winter, at relatively slow and boring work week. 🐌 I just lack topics to blog about. Even the sunsets haven’t been that great with the clouds. ☁ I’ve been posting more essays and I should do more interactive content but the wifi issues have been holding me back. I’ll try to do more next week, but honestly I’ve been trying to avoid the swamp known as social media and even news articles more generally. I follow my clients news media but I rarely follow the local or national news sources lately. 📰 I’m rather burnt out with the news and the hatred in the world today, I’d rather listen to those John Burroughs audio books on LibreVox or read a paper book. I have thought been trying to follow Marketplace on NPR as I think economic markets are important to me 📉as I try to be a savvy investor.

Next week I’m taking my truck to Denooyer to get inspected. I was going to do it in Greenville when I went out to my parents but they don’t have weekend hours and Denooyer is open late so I can just drop it off and pick it up after work.🔧 It’s a bit of a walk to the express bus from there so hopefully it won’t be too cold or icy come Wednesday. Dealer service is actually really convenient with their long hours compared to local mechanics where I’d have to leave work early. 😁 Thursday I have a dentist appointment bright and early at 7:50 AM. I might just take the 7:30 bus there, it would be easier then parking than catching the bus from the park and ride but I’ll have to watch the weather first.

Right now, the weekend actually doesn’t look too bad😄 Saturday, a chance of rain after 1pm. Partly sunny, with a high near 41. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. Sunday, mostly cloudy, with a high near 48. Typical average high for the weekend is 44 degrees.

That actually sounds better than I thought. Not too cold or stormy. The rain they had promised hasn’t materialized. Maybe I will head out of town for a few days. ⛺ I’ll think about it some more tomorrow. I’d really like to spend some time in the woods and night’s in the wilderness.

In four weeks on December 19 the sun will be setting at 4:24 pm,🌄 which is 3 minutes and 20 seconds earlier then tonight. In 2017 on that day, we had rain, mostly cloudy skies and temperatures between 53 and 34 degrees. Not quite the record but was very mild compared to this year. Typically, you have temperatures between 35 and 20 degrees. The record high of 54 degrees was set back in 1895.

Looking ahead, First Day of Winter ☃️ is a month away, Boxing Day 🥊 is in 5 weeks, Martin Luther King Day 🖤 is in 2 months, Presidents Day 👴 is in 13 weeks, Spring 🌷 is in 4 months, Easter 🐰 and Earth Day 🌎 is in 5 months, May 🕊 is in 23 weeks, 8:30 PM Sunset ️⛱️ is in 28 weeks and Inauguration Day 2021 👴🏻 is in 113 weeks.