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Cold start

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It looks like it only got down to 15 last night. But no big warm up today, the high will barely reach 27 later with the wind making it feel around zero. ⛄Some sunshine though.

The truth is that it’s not all that uncommon for January but odd to be hitting this early. Like every cough of a smoker, one could blame the wavy jet steam and the polar vortex dipping so far south on climate change but I think that’s unfair and unscientific.

But in a week there should be a definite warming trend. Winters just ain’t as cold as they once were in Albany.

Snow?

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I am increasingly concerned that we might be getting snow Thursday into Friday. This may require a re-evaluation of the weekend plans, as I don’t want to head far into the backcountry and have to deal with icy roads. I might end up heading up to NY 8 and doing something off that way. Only time will tell…

Icy Potomac Road

Been a Fairly Long Winter

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In my book, this has been awful long winter, getting started in November and having snow cover for most of the winter season. Winters like this are increasingly less common, and indeed compared to the 1981-2010 period, this was a fairly mild winter.

Cold Road

March 1, 2019 11:31 am Update

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Winter 2018-19 in Albany

The warmest temperature was 62 degrees (December 21st)

The coldest temperature was negative 8 degrees (February 1st).

8 days were in the 50s, 1 day was in the 60s, 0 days in the 70s this winter.

51 days were above normal. 4 days were normal. 35 days below normal.

Everybody is heading downtown

Took an hour to get home with the snow.

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Took an hour to get home with the snow.🚗🏎🚒🚚🚛🚗🚌🚗🚓🚕 Why couldn’t have this been declared a dire emergency by the politicians👴 and television stations, 📺so everybody went home at 2 pm and traffic was easy at rush hour?❄

Worked so good last snow storm.

Looking down to Hunter