Good morning! Happy Average High is 40 🌨! It won’t be that warm this morning but it will get above freezing which is good. Three weeks to Christmas 🎅. Overcast and 29 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☁ There is a south breeze at 5 mph. 🍃. There are 17 inches of snow on the ground. ☃ ️

We got another dusting of snow last night. ❄ Just enough to make the sidewalks a little bit icy. At least it’s better out here in the suburbs then the city. A few of the street sidewalk connections have snow plowed in them but if they apply some rock salt and hit it one more time with the sidewalk plows I expect by evening they’ll be dry. The suburban streets are all good too. 🚙

That said, there is a traffic jam going through the plaza today. 🏁 Not sure what the issue is maybe the tall snowbanks limiting visibility or the width of lanes. Doesn’t take much in the way of restrictions to slow up traffic at rush hour downtown.

After every snow storm – at least those ones I have to work late – I always get so pissed 👿 about the extreme traffic delays in the city. It just gets so cold waiting out for the bus after a long day at work 🚏then to just have to sit on the bus because traffic is stopped due to people blocking the road with their abandoned cars is so frustrating. 😤 When your tired and you just want to get home….

Today will have a slight chance of snow showers after 4pm. Mostly cloudy 🌦, with a high of 37 degrees at 1pm. Three degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around December 11th. South wind 5 to 7 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%. A year ago, we had mist. The high last year was 39 degrees. The record high of 63 was set in 1998. 6.0 inches of snow fell back in 1901.❄

The sun will set at 4:22 pm with dusk around 4:54 pm, which is 13 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌇 At sunset, look for snow 🌨 and temperatures around 36 degrees. There will be a south breeze at 5 mph. Today will have 9 hours and 13 minutes of daytime, an increase of one minute and 14 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will have a slight chance of snow showers. Mostly cloudy 🌧, with a low of 27 degrees at 6am. Two degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around December 2nd. Calm wind becoming west around 6 mph after midnight. Chance of precipitation is 20%. In 2018, we had mist in the evening, which became cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 39 degrees. The record low of 2 occurred back in 1989.

Cool this weekend with temperatures running 8 degrees below normal but otherwise sunny. 😀 Saturday, mostly sunny, with a high near 27. Sunday, partly sunny, with a high near 36. Typical average high for the weekend is 39 degrees.

As previously noted, there are 3 weeks until Christmas 🎅 when the sun will be setting at 4:27 pm with dusk at 4:59 pm. On that day in 2018, we had snow and temperatures between 33 and 17 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 33 degrees. We hit a record high of 66 back in 1889.