Good morning! Happy Thursday. Two weeks to Boxing Day 🥊. Mostly sunny and 18 degrees in Delmar, NY. Calm wind. ☀ Definitely a bit crisp but sunny. There are 3 inches of snow on the ground. There are a lot of bare patches on the ground now, I was able to cross the traffic island without deep snow for the first time since the snow storm. ☃ ️Things will start to thaw out at tomorrow around 9 am. 🌡️

Taking the express downtown. 🚍 The hybrid bus slowly nicely on the red-lights 🚥 on the expressway. Lot of smoke rising from the Glenmont Power Plant. 🏭 Definitely cold but crisp.

The beautiful morning ain’t expected to last. Today will have increasing clouds ☁, with a high of 29 degrees at 2pm. Eight degrees below normal. Light and variable wind. I won’t notice from my windowless office 🏢 but it doesn’t matter as I have a busy day on tap. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies in the morning, remaining cloudy in the afternoon. The high last year was 39 degrees. The record high of 62 was set in 1979. 6.6 inches of snow fell back in 1970.❄

The sun will set at 4:22 pm with dusk around 4:54 pm, which is 7 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At sunset, look for mostly cloudy skies ☁ and temperatures around 27 degrees. There will be a calm wind. Today will have 9 hours and 6 minutes of daytime, a decrease of 42 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will be mostly cloudy 🌥, with a low of 23 degrees at 7pm. One degree above normal, which is similar to a typical night around December 11th. Maximum wind chill around 20 at 6pm; South wind 3 to 7 mph. In 2018, we had cloudy skies in the evening, which became light snow by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 18 degrees. The record low of -6 occurred back in 1988.

Pennsylvania becomes the second state to ratify the United States Constitution, five days after Delaware became the first on this day in 1787.📃 I like the Keystone state a lot, real nice country and people. 🙂 Kind of an expensive state but at least their really laid back about open burning 🔥.

Going to be a wet one this weekend. 💦 Saturday, rain. High near 44. Calm wind. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New precipitation amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible. The should do a number on the snow. Sunday, a chance of rain and snow showers before 8am, then a chance of rain showers between 8am and 1pm. Cloudy, with a high near 42. Chance of precipitation is 30%. Typical average high for the weekend is 36 degrees.

Looking ahead, there are 4 weeks until Static Electric Shock Day 🧼 when the sun will be setting at 4:40 pm with dusk at 5:11 pm. How shocking :o. On that day in 2019, we had rain and temperatures between 40 and 32 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 30 degrees. We hit a record high of 62 back in 2008.