Good morning! Happy Snow Covered Sunday. Two weeks to Christmas Eve. Winter is back! Bright and sunny with blue skies, white snows and 31 degrees in Delmar, NY. There is a west breeze at 10 mph. Did you see we may get several more inches this week? Going to be warm enough today that some will inevitably melt, especially with the sun. But it will return. I guess winter isn’t quite over yet. 

Today will be partly sunny, with a high of 36 degrees at 1pm. Two degrees below normal. West wind 9 to 14 mph. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies. The high last year was 29 degrees. The record high of 64 was set in 1966. 6.1 inches of snow fell back in 2014. We had about half that much snow last night. 3 inches I recon but not enough for the landlord to plow. I don’t think he even has the plow on his truck. 

The sun will set at 4:22 pm with dusk around 4:53 pm, which is 4 seconds later than yesterday. At sunset, look for partly clear conditions and 34 degrees. There will be a west breeze at 9 mph. Today will have 9 hours and 6 minutes of daytime, a decrease of 46 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will have a slight chance of snow showers after 3am. Mostly cloudy, with a low of 23 degrees at 6am. Typical for tonight. Maximum wind chill around 24 at 6pm; Southwest wind around 7 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%. In 2016, we had partly cloudy skies. It got down to 13 degrees. The record low of -8 occurred back in 1988.

I’ve dug out Big Red, and will soon start it for the first time this week. I made sure everything was disconnected before I shut things down, so she should start right up. I forgotten how much snow there is to clean off of my big truck. I don’t mind snow but I usually prefer it to come earlier in the weeks so it melts off my truck.

Did some cleaning this morning, and now I’m off to park and ride to drop off paper for recycling then to to the store for groceries and supplies. Then in a little while I’ll head out to my parents house for Sunday dinner. I am feeling a quite a it better today, but I’m not ready for spending any extended periods out in the cold.

As previously noted, there are 2 weeks until Christmas Eve when the sun will be setting at 4:27 pm with dusk at 4:59 pm. On that day in 2016, we had rain, drizzle, snow, sleet, mist, mostly cloudy skies and temperatures between 42 and 35 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 33 degrees. We hit a record high of 72 back in 2015.