Good evening! 24 days and six hours until we will be toasting away the year. Partly cloudy and 39 degrees in the  City of Albany. Calm wind.

Gosh, doesn’t it seem like it was just 2015 or maybe 2014. A lot of changes happened this year, so better than others. Although most changes weren’t all that great, and when the history books are written this will be seen as a pretty ugly year. 

Tonight will be mostly cloudy, with a low of 30 degrees at 5am. Five degrees above normal. Calm wind becoming west around 5 mph. In 2015, it got down to 26 degrees with periods of fog. The record low of -3 occurred back in 1902.

Look up at the moon. It’s pretty! Waxing Gibbous Moon tonight with 57% illuminated. The moon will set around 2:39 am. The Full “Cold” Moon is next Wednesday. And it will be cold for the cold moon with temperatures in the teens. Buts it’s almost winter, so that’s to be expected. 

Tomorrow will have scattered snow showers, mainly after 1pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high of 39 degrees at 1pm. One degree above normal. Southwest wind 5 to 9 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible. Winter. A year ago, we had fog and a high of 43 degrees. The record high of 58 was set in 1927. 4.3 inches of snow fell back in 2001.

Right now, a split verdict on the rather cold upcoming weekend. Saturday, isolated snow showers. Partly sunny, with a high near 30. Chance of precipitation is 20%. Sunday, a chance of snow after 1pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 32. Chance of precipitation is 40%.Typical average high for the weekend is 38 degrees. The real frigid weather comes in a week from Thursday when the high in Albany is expected to be only 22, with a low in the single digits. 

In four weeks on January 4 the sun will be setting at 4:35 pm, which is 14 minutes later then tonight. In 2016 on that day, we had snow and temperatures between 32 and 6 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 31 and 15 degrees. The record high of 64 degrees was set back in 1950.