Good morning! Happy Ground Hog Day 🌧! The good news is he didn’t see his shadow. Partly cloudy and 3 degrees in Clarksville. ⛅ Calm wind.There are 8.5 inches of snow on a the ground. ☃ ️Things will start to thaw out at tomorrow around 11 am. 🌡️

Today will be partly sunny 🌞, with a high of 30 degrees at 3pm. Two degrees below normal, which is similiar to a typical day around January 22nd. Calm wind becoming south 5 to 9 mph in the morning. A year ago, we had partly cloudy in the morning, which became mostly sunny by afternoon. The high last year was 34 degrees. The record high of 53 was set in 1981. 11.9 inches of snow fell back in 2015.❄

Definitely nice how much brighter the mornings are now that the sun is rising earlier come February.🌞 I am quite happy with the Ground Hog not seeing his shadow. Early spring! I That said, varmints really aren’t that good of weather forecasters. 🐻Regardless, I’m sure black fly season isn’t that far away at any rate. Life is the northeast is grand ain’t it. At least Big Red started up easily with the fully charged accessory battery and the sensor errored out quickly and I could easily get it out of park.🚗 The cold of winter won’t last forever.

The sun will set at 5:11 pm with dusk around 5:40 pm, which is one minute and 19 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At sunset, look for mostly cloudy skies ☁ and temperatures around 30 degrees. There will be a west-southwest breeze at 10 mph. Today will have 10 hours and 3 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 24 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will be mostly cloudy 🌥, with a low of 22 degrees at 5am. Seven degrees above normal, which is similiar to a typical night around March 4th. Maximum wind chill around 19 at 6pm; West wind 8 to 13 mph becoming light after midnight. Winds could gust as high as 24 mph. In 2018, we had mostly clear in the evening, which became cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 5 degrees. The record low of -18 occurred back in 1955.

Tomorrow will be mostly cloudy 🌥, with a high of 37 degrees at 3pm. Five degrees above normal, which is similiar to a typical day around February 23rd. South wind 3 to 6 mph. A year ago, we had partly cloudy in the morning, which became mostly sunny by afternoon. The high last year was 29 degrees. The record high of 57 was set in 2016. 6.1 inches of snow fell back in 2004.❄

I was hoping for better weather for skiing tomorrow but I’ll take it one day at a time. I would also like to wash the salt off my truck 🚗before it warms up this week or maybe I can do that after work although I expect a pretty late night on Monday at least due to budget conference.🚿 Maybe I should wash the salt off before I go to my parents house on Sunday.

Friday was relatively sane for most of the day and only had the most minor of hitches. 💼I’m glad though that this week from hell is over and next week should be much quieter. Going to be a lot warmer but rainy next week but I’m good with that, it will save on the heating bills.

Somehow my Facebook token expired and I couldn’t get my blog to post to Facebook but after a little playing I figured out I could just manually request a new user token from Facebook and it worked again.💳 I guess I just now manually update the token using the graph api explorer and make sure to request a user token, not a page token with the appropriate post page permissions. What a pain.😠 Keeping my blog playing along with Facebook is an enormous pain but I know that’s where most of the eyeballs are this day of age. Especially friends and family.

I added a HC-06 bluetooth module in master mode to my color LED controller to control the lights over my bed via Bluetooth. 💻I soldered in a socket and did the necessary wiring which was simple as the esp32 is already 3.3 volt logic. I am then using the built-in Bluetooth for talking to my phone for controlling the colored led controller which in turn uses the separate HC-06 Bluetooth to communicate across the room to my bed lamp. 🔬This way come seven AM things are nice and bright. Works fine although I do have some bugs to fix in the code and other improvements to make. I also need to create a unified app for all of this. And maybe add some security features although what’s the worst thing a prankster could do? Turn on my lights in the middle of the night? Use a buffer overflow sitting out in the parking lot to damage the under $5 microprocessor.

Tonight I plan on replacing the broken IO board that contains the broken headphone jack on my laptop. 🎧Should be easy enough to do once I get the connector loose without damaging the ribbon cable. I think I might also have to pull the battery in the process but not a big deal. 🎶Maybe I should see if I can stop and get some canned air to clean out the fan so that’s quiter.

Looking ahead, there are 12 weeks until Arbor Day 🌳 when the sun will be setting at 7:51 pm with dusk at 8:22 pm (Daylight Savings Time). On that day in 2018, we had rain showers, cold, partly cloudy and temperatures between 50 and 36 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 63 degrees. We hit a record high of 91 back in 1962.

In four weeks on March 2 the sun will be setting at 5:47 pm,🌄 which is 35 minutes and 54 seconds later then today. In 2018 on that day, we had snow and temperatures between 35 and 32 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 39 and 21 degrees. The record high of 65 degrees was set back in 1991.

Looking ahead, Arbor Day 🌳 is in 12 weeks, 8 PM Sunset 🌇 is in 13 weeks, June 🍹 is in 17 weeks, Average High is 80 🏖 is in 20 weeks, Hottest Time of the Year 😅 is in 23 weeks and Average High Falls To 79 ️Degrees ⛱️️️ is in 29 weeks.