Good morning! Happy Thursday. Currently 19 degrees and mostly sunny with a 13 mph northwest wind. The wind chill value is currently 6. A rather chilly morning but with the sun doesn’t feel that bad. Just protect yourself from the wind, and you’ll be fine.

Today will be mostly sunny, with a high near 31. Northwest wind 8 to 10 mph. Tonight the sun will set at 5:48 pm with darkness around 6:16 pm, which is 1 minutes and 13 seconds later than yesterday. Today will have 11 hours and 23 minutes of daylight, an increase of 2 minutes and 53 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will have a slight chance of snow showers after 3am. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 14. Light and variable wind. Chance of precipitation is 20%.

Today in 1938, Oil is discovered in Saudi Arabia. This discovery forever would change world energy markets and increase the importance of the Middle East.

Also today in 1969, Apollo 9 was launched. It was the third manned mission in the United States Apollo space program and the first flight of the Command/Service Module (CSM) with the Lunar Module (LM).

Happy Birthday to Alexander Gram Bell who invented the first telephone. He was born on this day in 1847, and has been long dead. Of course nowadays none of phones are like those wired machines of yesteryear.

There are 1 month, 22 days until Arbor Day when the sun will be setting at 7:49 pm (Daylight Savings Time).

Got up early and walked down to the Express bus downtown. I barely made the earlier express bus, as I’ve gotten out of the habit of getting up earlier on the darker mornings of recent. But early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise. Plus I like my morning walks down to the bus stop.