Good morning! A rather cloudy Tuesday ☁ for President Trump’s and first State of Union Address. 👹Next Tuesday is Lame Duck Day. 🐤Snow flurries, cloudy skies and 24 degrees in Delmar, NY. There is a north breeze at 6 mph. The skies will clear around 9 pm. I think I saw a few snow flurries around, but other then that, it’s just another late January gray winter day. But don’t worry, be happy. Spring is only just around the corner, or so I tell myself. 

🐣Only 49 days remain until the first day of calendar spring!🐢

Today will be cloudy, with a high of 32 degrees at 1pm. One degree above normal. North wind 6 to 10 mph. Things will start to warm up more as we head into February,🌸 although I’m sure we are due for at least one more big arctic blast before it’s done. ❄A year ago, we had mostly cloudy skies, clearing in the afternoon. The high last year was 30 degrees. The record high of 56 was set in 2013. 11 inches of snow fell back in 1966.

The sun will set at 5:07 pm with dusk around 5:36 pm, which is one minute and 19 seconds later than yesterday.🌄 If I get out of work at 5 PM, there will still be a fair amount of daylight. At sunset, look for mostly cloudy conditions and 27 degrees. There will be a north-northwest breeze at 10 mph. Today will have 9 hours and 56 minutes of daytime, a decrease of 2 minutes and 20 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will have a chance of snow showers, mainly before 9pm. Cloudy during the early evening, then gradual clearing, with a low of 11 degrees at 6am. Four degrees below normal. Maximum wind chill around 0 at 6am; Northwest wind 9 to 13 mph. Fairly cold, but certainly a better way to end the month then how we started it in the in arctic blast. 🎢I might bring the heat up a few degrees this evening, just so things don’t get too cold, but I’m still reeling from the at $100 electricity and gas bill during the recent cold blast. 💣In the summer, I probably pay half that, and my budget is always so tight.  Chance of precipitation is 30%. New snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible. In 2017, we had mostly clear skies. It got down to 11 degrees. The record low of -26 occurred back in 1948.

So I’m catching the late bus downtown, because despite my lights I was tired from the gray skies and didn’t get a early start. The funny thing was last night, my birthday I was in bed by nine and asleep by ten. I need to get back in the habit of getting to bed earlier. 💤I guess if I don’t run into my boss on the elevator I’ll be fine. 🏣 Tomorrow I plan to be in earlier.  The clock is built continued to glow into the night as there is another bug in the code, but at least it wasn’t flashing. I just need to set one more pin to low at night to shut off the lights. This time, I got up and unplugged it. I will fix all the bugs eventually. I like hacking away at my own code to make it better. 

As previously noted, next Tuesday is Lame Duck Day🐤 when the sun will be setting at 5:16 pm with dusk at 5:45 pm. When that happens, I’ll be home many nights before dusk is done. That’s always a nice sign that spring is coming.🌄 On that day in 2017, we had snow, mostly cloudy skies and temperatures between 33 and 25 degrees.❄ Typically, the high temperature is 33 degrees. We hit a record high of 55 back in 1991.