December 11, 2016 Morning

Good morning! Today is Sunday, December 11th. Last day of regular season in New York. Two weeks to Christmas.Β It is cold but not unusually cold for mid December. Snow is coming. Partly cloudy and 22 degrees in Delmar. There is a south breeze at 7 mph. The skies will clear tomorrow around 6 pm.

Today will have a chance of light snow, mainly after 4pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high of 31 degrees at 2pm. Six degrees below normal. South wind 7 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. Total daytime snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible. A year ago, we had partly cloudy skies and a high of 59 degrees. The record high of 61 was set in 1952. 4.3 inches of snow fell back in 1970.

The sun will set at 4:22 pm with dusk around 4:54 pm, which is 8 seconds later than yesterday. Today will have 9 hours and 5 minutes of daylight, a decrease of 40 seconds over yesterday. Next Sunday the 19th and Monday the 20th are the shortest days of the year with only 9 hours and 2 minutes of day light.

Tonight will snow, mainly after 7pm. Low of 27 degrees at 9pm. Four degrees above normal – but with warm air pushing in that will cut into the snow totals. South wind 10 to 13 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New snow accumulation of 3 to 5 inches possible. In 2015, it got down to 34 degrees under mostly cloudy skies. The record low of -12 occurred back in 1988.

I think we are looking at around 4 inches of snow Β between Sunday 7:00 PM and Monday 7:00 AM.Β Not a big storm and indeed the roads may just be wet by the morning commute:

  • 1 inch – 12 AM
  • 2 inches – 2 AM
  • 3 inches – 4 AM

I expect the snow will be mostly gone come midday Monday, as the rain will quickly melt away the snow. It is warm snow and the rain should quickly chew away at it. Monday evening watch out for things icing back up.

As previously noted, there are 2 weeks until Christmas when the sun will be setting at 4:28 pm with dusk at 5:00 pm. On that day in 2015, we had rain and temperatures between 59 and 35 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 33 degrees. We hit a record high of 66 back in 1889.

I’m starting to get my usual December sinus infection / cold. So I’m sure I will feel like I want to die over the next few days. It’s not bad but my nose is congested and the minor body aches last week should have been a warning. But I’ll survive and I’m sure it will be done within the next few days. I’ll see how I feel tomorrow morning before going to work. I hate staying home with no Internet.

While I spend relatively little time home, I can’t wait until the day I get out of this shitty moldy apartment that is located in a good location but really is more of starter, low cost place to live then anything nice. Maybe then I won’t get the sinus infections which have been such a problem since moving here nearly ten years ago. I just wanted that cabin in the woods, preferably not in New York with all the indignities of living in our state.

Today’s plan calls for heading out to the grocery store before it clouds up and threatens to snow. I think we have a bit of time in Albany but I want to be home before the sanders are blasting the roads with salt.

I might go for a walk somewhere in the woods today but that depends on the amount of sun we have later on today. It’s actually warming up a bit with the coming snow and the blue skies are helping with the cold. I don’t want to go too far today though.

I think I have figured out what I want to buy for a casual winter coat, so I will after two years get around to buying that. I will probably go for the Carhart Detroit Jacket in black and wear it with layers below it for extra warmth on the coldest day. Staying away from Carteret brown as that tends to show the stains. That was its unlikely to rip like those polyvinyl choloride jackets that the kids in the city wear.

I also need to make up some more interesting Google or demographic Β maps for the blog. It would be nice if Albany County would finalize their election results so I could use that for mapping. That’s a good use of a cold winter day, after least it keeps me entertained with pretty colors on a cold winter day.

I also need to fix the video on my laptop, which seems like it’s causing some artifacts on the screen ever since I downgraded to the LTS version of Linux. It looks like I just need to install a newer version of the Intel video driver. I also have an issue with audio occasionally skipping but I’m sure that’s easy to fix. But other than that and the sometimes obnoxiously noisy fan the laptop is working great.

Okay, I’m filibustering my day. Time to get going. Have a great day!Β 

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