Good afternoon. Happy Eve of Christmas Eve. Cloudy and 54 degrees this afternoon. Sunset will occur at 4:26 PM.

A few rain showers have popped up but so far we are mostly rain free. More rain expected later this evening. Tomorrow will be cloudy but if the clouds break they could exceed 70 degrees.

Left work early for the holiday weekend.   Going to relax this evening and pack for camping tomorrow, and leave early on Friday. Should be a nice weekend.

Good morning on this day before Christmas Eve. Foggy, damp and 43 degrees now, clearing by mid-morning with temperatures around 58 for a high. Rain comes in for the evening.

Took Big Red to Walmart last night mostly to test the starting battery and the override switch on the second battery I installed on my truck. A short trip for testing purposes. So far it works well, with solid starts, but we will see going forward. I plan to leave the truck parked until tomorrow. I think it starts a lot easier with the starting battery disconnected until I re-engauge it once moving along.

Tomorrow it’s off to the parents house for Christmas Dinner and packing for the weekend’s camping trip. I’m super excited to be camping on Christmas in relatively mild weather.

Baked cookies for work today. Hoping that the bosses let out early for the holiday weekend. Should be a good day regardless.

Good evening. It looks like the rain has moved off to the east, and we are down to about 50 degrees from the earlier high of 52 degrees. Not bad for two days before Christmas.

Tonight, we are a looking a slight chance of showers before 7pm. Later it will be partly cloudy, with a low around 44. South wind around 5 mph becoming calm in the evening. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.

Sounds like an exceptionally nice evening for late December but it might feel damp. We’ll see. But I’ll take the warm, snow-free weather for now. We’ll get our white, just sometime after Christmas.

Early predictions show a major cool down for the first week of January. With El Nino underway, this could mean significant snow if blocking means tropical moisture hits an arctic blast. I don’t care, the bus will get me to work.

Tomorrow is the last day of work for the week, having Christmas Eve and Christmas off. Really looking forward to getting out camping. I have really high hopes for a nice weekend.

Good evening. 45 degrees with a cold breeze this afternoon. No rain so far this evening but rain showers remain a possibility throughout the evening. A better chance of rain come tomorrow.

Today was the shortest day of the year, being the winter solstice. Slowly at first the days will be getting longer. The mild winter really has given us a break but it still gets dark so early.

Looking forward to the long weekend and camping on Christmas. I wonder if I will see other people up in the woods. I certainly wouldn’t be shocked with the nice warm weather. It will be nice, especially now that I have that nice bright propane lantern.

Traffic is light heading out of city. It was a relatively quiet day today at work. Christmas week means a lot of people are off from work.

Good evening. Currently 36 degrees in Albany. It’s a little hard to tell in the city but I think it’s mostly cloudy out per my phone. Tonight we are looking at isolated snow showers after 1am from Lake Effect Snow. Increasing clouds, with a low around 29. Northwest wind 8 to 13 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%.

Going to be a pretty cold and blustery weekend as expected for December. Not a lot of snow expected locally but we might get a dusting from the lake effect locally.

It’s was a pretty good day. Big Red seems to be working well with the charged battery. Did some good stuff at work today. Went and had some drinks after work at CSP. All and all a good day.