Forty degrees and pretty gray as we head into the 9 o’clock hour this morning. Later we are looking at temperatures around 47 degrees which is normal for today. Maybe a little more clearing later, we will see.  Going to see some melting of the snow and creation of some mud everywhere. Kind of brown and icky looking snow in the city for sure today.

I realized on my way to work that my face was covered with blood and my sideburns were cut unevenly. Somebody was half awake when he shaved this morning. Too late to fix the sideburns, but I did mop up the blood and will fix the sideburns in tomorrow morning.

The sun will set at 7:09 pm with dusk around 7:37 pm, which is one minute and 9 seconds later than yesterday. Today will have 12 hours and 14 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 55 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will have a slight chance of rain showers before midnight, then a slight chance of rain and snow showers between midnight and 1am, then scattered snow showers after 1am. Mostly cloudy, with a low of 25 degrees at 6am. Five degrees below normal. West wind 11 to 16 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible. In 2016, it got down to 27 degrees with periods of snow. We aren’t don with snow yet, although in two weeks the normal low temperatures will be above freeze. The record low of 2 occurred back in 1875.

I don’t know if they adjusted the sensitivity of the CDTA Navigator cards or if I’ve just gotten better at using the cards but it seems like they are almost instantly read when I stick my wallet up against the reader.  I am very happy with my new wallet, as things don’t seem to slide around much, and I don’t need to pull out CDTA Navigator Card to pay my bus fare — so no risk of misplacing it in my wallet or in a coat pocket.

As previously noted, next Tuesday is the Average High is 50 when the sun will be setting at 7:17 pm with dusk at 7:46 pm. On that day in 2016, we had rain and temperatures between 50 and 41 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 50 degrees. We hit a record high of 85 back in 1945.

Today in 1921, New Economic Policy is implemented by the Bolshevik Party in response to the economic failure as a result of war communism. In 1970,  first Earth Day proclamation is issued by Joseph Alioto, Mayor of San Francisco. And in 2006,  social media site Twitter is founded. And in case your wondering what is the matter with Kansas, Thomas Frank, American author, historian and political analyst is born in 1965.