Taking the last express bus downtown for the year. Trees are snow covered here in the suburbs and we got a fair amount more of snow then in the city. 31 degrees this morning. There is a west breeze at 7 mph. Definitely salty out there, a lot of windshield washing going on from passing. Sidewalks were a bit icy, but not too bad as the town had dropped some salt on them. In a bit of a cloudy period, the skies will clear New Years Day around 5 am. Maybe though today we will see some breaks of sun.

Today will have some scattered snow showers. Mostly cloudy, with a high of 33 degrees at 10am. One degree above normal. Then dropping through the day. West wind 7 to 15 mph. Chance of precipitation is 40%. Total daytime snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible. A year ago, we had rain and a high of 40 degrees. The record high of 53 was set in 1984. 10.9 inches of snow fell back in 2000.

The sun will set at 4:31 pm with dusk around 5:03 pm, which is 49 seconds later than yesterday. Today will have 9 hours and 6 minutes of daylight, an increase of 41 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will have a slight chance of snow showers before 3am. Mostly cloudy, with a low of 24 degrees at 3am. Seven degrees above normal. West wind 6 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%. In 2015, it got down to 37 degrees with periods of rain. The record low of -17 occurred back in 1917.

Next Friday is Epiphany, the end of the Christmas holiday when the sun will be setting at 4:38 pm with dusk at 5:09 pm. On that day in 2016, we had mostly sunny skies and temperatures between 34 and 5 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 31 degrees. We hit a record high of 71 back in 2007.

Not sure about camping this year and weekend. I’ll have to decide later in the day. It would be fun to spend New Years Eve in the wilderness but it’s going to a long cold dark night. New Years Day does sound pretty nice though.

The blog got a slight refresh over the past few days. You may have to refresh the page to see the new look, but it puts the images up further to the top, and gets rid of some of the clutter. Kind of a new design for 2016.