The drizzle continues as the morning drags on and the temperature has risen to 36 but the sidewalks remain icy in spots despite town employees being out with the ATV salt spreader attachment. Warming up to 39 degrees with rain tapering off later. Some of the side streets in Albany remain icy.

The sun will set at 4:52 pm with dusk around 5:22 pm, which is 1 minutes and 14 seconds later than yesterday. Today will have 9 hours and 31 minutes of daylight, an increase of 1 minute and 50 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will have a slight chance of drizzle before 10pm, then a slight chance of freezing drizzle between 10pm and 11pm. Patchy fog before 7pm. Otherwise, cloudy, with a low of 29 degrees at 6am. 15 degrees above normal. Light and variable wind. In 2016, it got down to 13 degrees with periods of snow. The record low of -28 occurred back in 1971.

It’s the Save the Pine Bush dinner tonight at 6 PM at the Westminster Presbyterian Church between State and Chestnut downtown, a few buildings up from the Empire Plaza. We have a new team volunteering in the kitchen, and new recipe for their lasagna is pretty darn good. It should be a good dinner. The featured speaker this month is Kim Fraczek, Co-Director of Sane Energy Project who will speak about Gas Infrastructure — The Big Picture.

More details here: http://www.savethepinebush.org/Current/Dinner.html

As previously noted, there are 6 weeks until March 1st when the sun will be setting at 5:46 pm with dusk at 6:14 pm. On that day in 2016, we had rain and temperatures between 38 and 21 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 39 degrees. We hit a record high of 61 back in 1991.  Usually in March, things start to warm up a fair bit, although we tend to have some big snow storms — some years. April is when it gets decent enough for camping most years, although last April was pretty frigid through the end of the month.