Good morning! Happy Ides of March. If you’re a friendly stranger in a black sedan, you’ll note it’s cloudy and 40 degrees with a 5 mph north wind.

Today will be patchy drizzle before noon, then a slight chance of sprinkles between noon and 2pm. Not great weather for cruising the miracle mile in your black sedan. Otherwise though, mostly cloudy, with a high near 54. At least you can have your windows down. Calm wind becoming north around 5 mph in the morning. That’s about 10 degrees above normal. The record high of 72 degrees was set back in 1989.

Tonight the sun will set at 7:03 pm with darkness around 7:31 pm, which is 1 minutes and 10 seconds later than yesterday. Today will have 11 hours and 58 minutes of daylight, an increase of 2 minutes and 55 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will have a slight chance of sprinkles after 8pm. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 43. North wind 3 to 5 mph. That’s about 17 degrees above normal. The record low of 4 degrees was set back in 1980.

There are 6 days until First Day of Spring when the sun will be setting at 7:09 pm. The average high temperature for First Day of Spring is 46 degrees, with a record high of 78 in 1921. That doesn’t seem real spring like.

Happy Birthday to Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg, who turns 83 today. A liberal justice, her replacement is likely to be picked by the next president. The next president will end up having a lot of power to pick the leadership of the Supreme Court.

Today being the Ides of March, in 44 BC Julius Caesar, Dictator of the Roman Republic, is stabbed to death by Marcus Junius Brutus, Gaius Cassius Longinus, Decimus Junius Brutus and several other Roman senators. Today in 1990 marked the election of Mikhail Gorbachev as the first President of the Soviet Union.