Good morning! 15 days until New Years Eve! Three weeks to Epiphany. Mostly sunny and six degrees in Albany. See we are warming up. There is a west breeze at 6 mph. The windchill isn’t that significant now and with the sun feels quite nice. 

The ravioli is baked and ready to go, sitting on my lap nice and warm. It was a lot of cooking this morning but it took the chill off my apartment. Four cheeses on meat ravioli with breadcrumbs, meatballs, corn, mushrooms, jalapeños and sauce. Should be good. I accidentally made up too much ravioli but I refroze that. 

Today will be mostly sunny, with a high of 18 degrees at 4pm. 18 degrees below normal. Wind chill values as low as -4. West wind around 6 mph becoming south in the afternoon. A year ago, we had mostly cloudy skies and a high of 46 degrees. The record high of 55 was set in 1971. 9.5 inches of snow fell back in 1981.

The sun will set at 4:22 pm with dusk around 4:55 pm, which is 19 seconds later than yesterday. Today will have 9 hours and 3 minutes of daylight, a decrease of 20 seconds over yesterday. Next week we throw that in reverse! 

Tonight will snow after 10pm. Low of 17 degrees at 6pm. Not as cold. Five degrees rbelow normal. South wind 6 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New snow accumulation of 1 to 3 inches possible. Warming through Sunday, turning to rain in the afternoon. Rain on Sunday. 

Last year tonight in 2015, it got down to 44 degrees with periods of fog and rain. The record low of -8 occurred back in 1942.
As previously noted, there are 3 weeks until Epiphany when the sun will be setting at 4:37 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.

Good morning! Talk about a cold late autumn morning with temperatures around three above but quite clear. There is a northwest breeze at 8 mph. Math wizards would tell you that the current wind chill is -11.

Next Wednesday is the first day of Winter. 

Today will be mostly sunny, with a high of 18 degrees at 4pm. 18 degrees below normal. Wind chill values as low as -11. Northwest wind 6 to 8 mph becoming south in the afternoon. 

Good evening! Light snow and 17 degrees in Albany. There is a west breeze at 11 mph. The current wind chill is 4. The roads are mostly just wet but watch for a glaze on bridges and the secondaries. 

Not having a winter coat yet, I am totally undressed for the weather. But between my smartphone giving me real time bus info and running out just im time for the bus, I’ve been fine. Of course if the bus slides off the road and I’m stuck in the cold, I’ll be screwed. But the hot seat on the bus is fine tonight. I like stretching out on it because the 5 pm is less popular than earlier busses. 

Tonight will have on and off snow showers. Cloudy during the early evening, then gradual clearing, with a low of 4 degrees at 5am. 17 degrees below normal. In other words, cold arctic blast like.  Wind chill values as low as -13. Windy, with a northwest wind 24 to 29 mph decreasing to 11 to 16 mph after midnight. Winds could gust as high as 48 mph. Fast enough that they can give it a speeding ticket on the Delaware Turnpike. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible. 

In 2015, it got down to 35 degrees under mostly cloudy skies. More than thirty degrees warmer. But nowhere near record breaking cold. The record low of -11 occurred back in 1917. The sun will rise at 7:19 am with the first light at 6:47 am, which is 42 seconds later then yesterday.

Traffic is all backed up going northbound but is moving well southbound on the old 787. Assuming that the roads aren’t bad in the suburbs, I should get home relatively quickly. 

Tonight I got to get to the store and buy pasta to make the dish for tomorrow holiday potluck at work. I’m not that worried about the roads because I live in the store a few miles from the grocery. After rush hour, there shouldn’t be much traffic. Cleaned off the truck earlier in the week.  

Looking ahead, Obama’s Last Day is in 5 weeks, Ground Hog Day is in 7 weeks, Ides of March is in 3 months and Start of June is in 24 weeks. I think I’m most states in America you can get pregnant tonight and still get a legal abortion before the start of June. In other words, June is a long ways off.