Good evening! Mostly cloudy and 32 degrees in Delmar. ☁ Calm wind. Things will start to thaw out at tomorrow around 11 am. 🌡️

I went for a nice evening walk, it was fairly mild for December earlier. 🏃I thought about going for a walk somewhere else but I got busy with a bunch of projects I was working on.

Tonight will have a chance of light snow, mainly after 2am. Cloudy 🌨, with a low of 27 degrees at 5am. Nine degrees above normal, which is similiar to a typical night around December 2nd. Southeast wind 3 to 5 mph. Chance of precipitation is 50%. Total nighttime snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible. In 2017, we had cloudy skies. It got down to 26 degrees. The record low of -15 occurred back in 1989.

Tonight will have a Waning Gibbous Moon 🌖 with 97% illuminated. The moon will set at 9:04 am. The Last Quarter Moon is on Friday night with partly cloudy skies. The Wolf Moon 🌝 is in 4 weeks. The sun will rise at 7:23 am with the first light at 6:51 am, which is 25 seconds later than yesterday. 🌄 Tonight will have 14 hours and 57 minutes of darkness, a decrease of 11 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will snow showers likely before 3pm, then a chance of rain and snow showers between 3pm and 4pm, then a chance of snow showers after 4pm. Cloudy 🌧, with a high of 37 degrees at 3pm. Four degrees above normal, which is similiar to a typical day around December 13th. Light and variable wind becoming west 5 to 7 mph in the morning. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New snow accumulation of less than one inch possible. A year ago, we had light rain in the morning, which became light drizzle by afternoon. The high last year was 36 degrees. The record high of 72 was set in 2015. 13 inches of snow fell back in 1966.❄

Next weekend looks like it might be perfect weather-wise. 😎 Next Saturday, partly sunny, with a high near 41. Next Sunday, mostly sunny, with a high near 30. Typical average high for the weekend is 32 degrees. Maybe I will try to get out of town for New Years Eve Weekend. It depends on how much snow is up north or wherever I decide to go. It would be fun to get one more smallish trip in before the end of the year.

Finally ended up buying another windshield wiper as it turns out that the one I bought originally doesn’t fit my truck. Unfortunately I think the receipt got damaged but it was only $9 at Walmart. Maybe I’ll try to take it back, I have part of the receipt. We’ll see. 🎫 The new blade works fine but it was a pain to get it to snap on properly. For such a simple part it always seems like windshield wipers can be problematic. Even the high end blades don’t always last.

Spent some time working on Christmas presents today, along with some working on code and writing. 📄 Made some new maps up too and other content for the blog. Got some groceries. Need to continue to work on the Bluetooth stuff as I decided I want to have that working perfectly before I hook it into the lighting fixture and have to reach up to fix it.

In four weeks on January 20 the sun will be setting at 4:53 pm,🌄 which is 27 minutes and 26 seconds later then tonight. In 2018 on that day, we had partly cloudy and temperatures between 46 and 25 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 30 and 14 degrees. The record high of 53 degrees was set back in 2006.

Looking ahead, National Cheese Lovers Day 🧀 is a month away, National Pie Day 🍰 is a month away, Daylight Savings Time 🌆 is in 11 weeks, April Fools Day 🤡 is in 14 weeks, Tax Day 💰 is in 16 weeks, Earth Day 🌎 is in 17 weeks, Memorial Day 🇺🇸 is in 22 weeks, July 🏊🏿 is in 27 weeks and Last Sunset After 8 PM 🌆 is in 33 weeks.