Better be careful riding in on the bike trail and wash and grease the bike when I get home from the road salt.

Good morning! Happy Thursday on this start of Hanukkah for all those celebrating. 🕎 Despite the commercial media, I’ve heard Hanukkah is a relatively minor holiday compared to Rosh Ha.

Cold and icy start to the morning. Mostly cloudy and 21 degrees in the Delmar. ⛅ Sun lol 😂. There is a northwest breeze at 5 mph. 🍃. There is a inch of snow on the ground. ☃ ️Things will start to thaw out at tomorrow around 9 am. 🌡️Won’t get above freezing today but much warmer come the weekend.

My stomach is feeling better today. ☺ I think I might have just had a minor case of food poisoning the other day with the undercooked kale. 🍲 Been trying to cut back and adjust the foods that give me problems while still eating a diverse and healthy diet.

Today will have a chance of snow, mainly between 11am and 5 pm. Mostly cloudy 🌨, with a high of 32 degrees at 1pm. Nine degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around January 15th. Northwest wind around 5 mph becoming southeast in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 50%. Total daytime snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible. I left the heat on at 48 degrees to be safe. A year ago, we had partly cloudy skies in the morning, which became cloudy by afternoon. The high last year was 58 degrees. The record high of 65 was set in 1998. 5.5 inches of snow fell back in 2003.❄

Solar noon 🌞 is at 11:48 am with sun having an altitude of 24.8° from the due south horizon (-46° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 13 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 3:38 pm with the sun in the southwest (232°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-southwest (240°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 4:23 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 22 seconds with dusk around 4:53 pm, which is 6 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌇 The best time to look at the stars is after 5:30 pm. At sunset, look for snow showers 🌨 and temperatures around 31 degrees. There will be a south-southeast breeze at 5 mph. Tomorrow will have 9 hours and 12 minutes of daytime, a decrease of 58 seconds over today.

Tonight will be mostly cloudy ☁️, with a low of 25 degrees at 4am. Typical for tonight. Light southeast wind. In 2022, we had mostly clear skies in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 29 degrees. The record low of -3 occurred back in 1902.

Today in 1787, Delaware becomes the first state to ratify the United States Constitution. 📜 And for football fans in 1963, Instant replay makes its debut during the Army-Navy football game in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. 1972 today marked the end of an era — Apollo 17, the last Apollo moon mission, is launched. 🌕 The crew takes the photograph known as The Blue Marble as they leave the Earth.

Not a particularly nice weekend on tap. 😞 Saturday, mostly cloudy, with a high near 47. South wind 6 to 8 mph. Sunday, a chance of showers before 1pm, then rain likely after 1pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 54. Breezy. Chance of precipitation is 70%. Typical average high for the weekend is 40 degrees.

As a reminder, there are 2 weeks until First Day of Winter ☃️ when the sun will be setting at 4:26 pm with dusk at 4:56 pm. On that day in 2022, we had mostly sunny and temperatures between 34 and 16 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 37 degrees. We hit a record high of 62 back in 2018.