Winter
El Nino May Bring A Warm, Wet Winter.
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Road Salt
Many people don’t want a frigid winter, one when the mercury struggles to break 10 above. But I do.
Here’s why: the DOT uses a lot less salt when it’s very cold. Salt is useless when road surfaces don’t get above 15 degrees or so. People just have to learn to drive carefully on snow covered roads, and accept in the winter that it’s normal and healthy for roads to be covered with snow.
Some people think weather that struggles to break 0 degrees is no fun. But natural gas and oil is cheap this year, and you can bundle up when you go outside, especially if the wind isn’t whipping around. And less road salt is good not just for cars and bridges, and our dress paints and wool overcoats — but also the environment.
Bring on the cold this winter!
Supercalifragilisticexpealidocious.
It might be disappointing this winter when it comes to snowfall. Which sucks, because it would be nice to have a winter in Albany where we get more then two inches of snow all winter.
Still a Ton of Snow Up North
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That said, the rain and warm temperatures seem to being taking a good bite out of the snow locally.
Heat Wave
Tuesday is predicted to be 45 degrees.
The last time it was above 40 degrees in Albany was December 27th, when it reached 51 degrees. Christmas 2014 was 58 degrees, and Christmas Eve was 51 degrees.
Then to find that kind of warmth again, you’ll have to go back to December 1st (50 degrees) and December 3rd (44 degrees).
It is predicted to be sunny on Tuesday through Friday of next week. The high temperature will gradually fall through the week.
Tuesday’s sunset is 6:55 PM.
The last time the sunset that late was September 20, 2014. On that day, the high was 75 degrees and the low was 54 degrees. It was sunny.