Good morning! Happy Snowy Tuesday. Next Tuesday is Christmas Eve 🎅. Snow and 27 degrees at the CDTA Bus Stop #10595. ❄ There is a north breeze at 6 mph. 🍃. There are 1.5 inches of snow on the ground and it’s continuing to accumulate. ☃ ️Things will start to thaw out at Sunday around noontime. 🌡️ God may have put it here but he’s in no hurry to take it away.

Slip sliding my way to work on the bus 🚍. By the speed the traffic is moving it must be fairly slippery around, indeed I’ve felt the traction control kick in hard a few times as the wheels had some slip on the hills. I am fully confident that I will make it into work on time. I thought about walking 🚶 down to the express bus 🚏but that’s the last express downtown for the day and if it got stuck I would be screwed. I will probably take the express home, as worse comes to worse I’ll be home late or have to walk part of the distance.

Today will snow. 🌨 High of 29 degrees at 1pm. Six degrees below normal. North wind 5 to 8 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. Total daytime snow accumulation of 3 to 5 inches possible. A year ago, we had cloudy skies in the morning with more sun in the 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 don’t think we will beat the 1970 record today.

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 even more snow 🌨 and temperatures around 28 degrees. There will be a north-northwest breeze at 8 mph. Today will have 9 hours and 3 minutes of daytime, a decrease of 22 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will have a chance of snow showers, mainly before 9pm. Cloudy, then gradually becoming partly cloudy 🌧, with a low of 22 degrees at 6am. Two degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around December 14th. Maximum wind chill around 22 at 6am; Light north wind becoming northwest 6 to 11 mph. Chance of precipitation is 40%. New snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible. In 2018, we had light snow in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 20 degrees. The record low of -9 occurred back in 1919. It’s winter. Okay, maybe not officially until the weekend but so be it.

Today in 1777 durting the American Revolution, France formally recognizes the United States. 🍟I am sure that the Idaho potato farmers thank France for that invention of lard fried potatoes. I’ve heard North Idaho is a lot different than the potato growing and cattle grazing region of South Idaho. Beautiful state though.

Cloudy and cold weekend on tap. ☁ Saturday, mostly cloudy, with a high near 29. Sunday, mostly cloudy, with a high near 37. Typical average high for the weekend is 34 degrees. Welcome to the winter. I’m hoping for better weather for next weekend for my camping trip. It looks like the end of the month might actually be quite mild.

Looking ahead, there are 4 weeks until Coldest Week of the Year 🌬 when the sun will be setting at 4:45 pm with dusk at 5:16 pm. By then the evenings will be noticeably longer. On that day in 2019, we had partly sunny skies, with a few snow showers and temperatures between 28 and 8 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 30 degrees. We hit a record high of 66 back in 1932.