Listening to the rain pound down on the roof. Sure I would have rather been up in the wilderness but not with the rain pouring out of the sky. I could have erected a tarp and built a fire but it still would have been soaking wet with the wind. So alas I’m back home. The past two nights though were fun.
"Norilsk is among Russia's coldest, richest, and most polluted places—and 175,000 people call it home."
"Anyone planning to go to work on Friday morning should expect slippery road conditions and a hazardous commute.
The National Weather Service issued a Winter Weather Advisory for 1 to 7 a.m. Friday for snow, sleet or freezing rain.
Expect mixed precipitation with total snow accumulations of up ..."
"Anticipated changes in upper atmosphere over the North Pole during late December may impact the polar vortex, which may trigger outbreaks of Arctic air over parts of the Northern Hemisphere during January and February."
"The Day and Night World Map shows the Sun's current position and where it is night and day throughout the world at that point of time."
Not so much for the Albany-area, but heading west, it will be coming.
"Thanksgiving Day may end up being one of the coldest on record in Upstate New York."