Good morning! Happy Saturday. Save the Pine Bush Hike day at 9:30 at the APB Discovery Center ! Partly sunny and 19 degrees in Delmar, NY. There is a west-southwest breeze at 7 mph. Cold, so bundle up if you are going out with us. Claire Nolan is the hike leader, and she is vastly more interesting than me. 

Today will have a slight chance of snow showers between 11am and 3pm. Partly sunny, with a high of 29 degrees at 1pm. Seven degrees below normal. West wind 7 to 11 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies. The high last year was 21 degrees. The record high of 55 was set in 1971. 9.5 inches of snow fell back in 1981.

The sun will set at 4:23 pm with dusk around 4:55 pm, which is 18 seconds later than yesterday. At sunset, look for partly cloudy conditions and 27 degrees. There will be a west-northwest breeze at 8 mph. Today will have 9 hours and 3 minutes of daytime, a decrease of 22 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will be mostly clear, with a low of 11 degrees at 5am. 10 degrees below normal. Maximum wind chill around 5 at 6am; Northwest wind 5 to 9 mph becoming calm after midnight. In 2016, we had mostly clear skies with more clouds in the early hours of the next day. It got down to 20 degrees. The record low of -8 occurred back in 1942.

Definitely a fairly cool morning, but so goes winter. If I didn’t have the hike or the Christmas party to go to I would still be in bed. But so be it. 

The Caneadea Chicken I made for the Christmas party was a hit but didn’t win any awards. That’s fine. I guess I am no chef. Eat way too much and ended up falling asleep when I got home, then working on some coding projects late into the night. 

Looking ahead, there are 7 weeks until The Day the Music Died when the sun will be setting at 5:12 pm with dusk at 5:41 pm. Drove the Chevy to the levy, but the levy was dry. On that day in 2017, we had cloudy skies and temperatures between 30 and 19 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 32 degrees. We hit a record high of 57 back in 2016.