Good evening! Mostly cloudy and 26 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☁ Calm wind. There are 0.5 inches of snow on the ground. ☃ More coming tomorrow. Heading into a deep freeze the next few days. ️Things will start to thaw out at Sunday around 11 am. 🌡️

Tonight will snow likely, mainly after 4am. Cloudy 🌨, with a low of 26 degrees at 9pm. Five degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around December 4th. Calm wind. Chance of precipitation is 60%. Total nighttime snow accumulation of 1 to 2 inches possible. Might be a bit tricky with the commute, I’ll have to leave earlier tomorrow. 🚍 In 2018, we had light rain in the evening, which became cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 30 degrees. The record low of -8 occurred back in 1942.

It should be a pretty morning when the sun ☀ comes up with lots of snow around. ❄ Might also be good for the Save the Pine Bush Ski trip 🎿 on Saturday. I’ve yet to decide about going up north on Saturday night, depends on how sunny it will be and how deep the snow is. I wouldn’t mind a nice night in the wilderness but it looks like it’s going to be pretty cold. ⛺

Tonight will have a Waning Gibbous Moon 🌖 with 61% illuminated. The moon will set at 11:38 am. The Last Quarter Moon will be tomorrow with a chance of snow showers. The is on Wednesday night. The sun will rise at 7:18 am with the first light at 6:46 am, which is 42 seconds later than yesterday. 🌄 Tonight will have 14 hours and 56 minutes of darkness, an increase of 24 seconds over last night.

It sucks thst I had to stay a little bit late last night at work to make up my late arrival, but so far that’s the first time I’ve been late to my new job.⌚ Its definitely a different experience being an hourly employee rather than a salary worker but at least most days I get to go home at five. It ultimately dudnt matter much because I gad a Save the Pine Bush meeting to go to.

Tomorrow will snow. 🌨 High of 30 degrees at 12pm. Five degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical North wind 3 to 6 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New snow accumulation of 3 to 5 inches possible. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies in the morning, which became light drizzle by afternoon. The high last year was 41 degrees. The record high of 59 was set in 1984. 11.1 inches of snow fell back in 1970.❄

I won some really nice things at the Pine Bush raffle last night. 🌲I don’t know how I managed to win so many things, granted the few things I really liked I tossed a bunch of tickets 🎫 and apparently I was drawn a few times. I should also donate a bunch to Save the Pine Bush – I did kick in a bit at the event but I was originally planning on spending more. Well I’ll have more money to spend at the dinner 💵 and maybe I should mail ✉ in a check or do the Go Fund Me page. I still don’t know how I managed to win so much stuff. Honest, I didn’t bribe the judge I wasn’t there when things were called. I was in bed by then. 🎄Well at least I’ll have some nice Christmas gifts 📦.

I got the voltage sensitive I ordered from China today. 🔌 I am going to test it and built the wire harness necessary to operate it starting tomorrow night after work and maybe have it hooked up by the weekend. My hope is by the weekend to have it up and running so I never have to worry about having a weak start if I’m parked out in the sun ☀.

I have to admit lately i find I really miss spending time out in the wilderness and in the country. ⛺🐸🐷🐺🐮 I do hope that I get out to the Finger Lakes in a few weeks. I think its alk thr YouTube I estch lstely of those Idaho qnd Alaska off grid farm types – and all the other farm families that I watch that gets me craving the wilder side of life.😻The smell of the wood smoke and the dirt and manure. The sound of the axe and the diesel tractor. 🚜 Its so far away from Albany and the buses🚍and the suit and tie.👔

At any rate, Thursday is going to be a cold one after the snow ❄ falls. I think I’ll probably have to turn back up the heat. ♨It is what it is and honestly with the heat turned up its more comfortable in my bedroom.

In four weeks on January 13 the sun will be setting at 4:44 pm,🌄 which is 21 minutes and 25 seconds later then tonight. In 2019 on that day, we had partly sunny skies and temperatures between 23 and 10 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 30 and 14 degrees. The record high of 71 degrees was set back in 1932.

Looking ahead, Make Your Dream Come True Day 🏡 is in 4 weeks, Clean Your Computer Day 🧹 is in 8 weeks, Presidents Day 👴 is in 9 weeks, Read Across America Day 📚 is in 11 weeks, Worm Moon 🌕 is in 12 weeks, Arbor Day 🌳 is in 19 weeks, 8 PM Sunset 🌇 is in 20 weeks, Average High is 70 🐮 is in 5 months, Flower Moon 🌕 is in 22 weeks and Memorial Day 🇺🇸 is in 23 weeks.