Good morning! What day is it? Save the Pine Bush Dinner Day, of course. 🍲 Hugh Johnson’s presentation on the politicalization of the weather service by the Trump administration should be really interesting. Two weeks to Average High is 40 🌨. Cloudy with snow fog and mist and 33 degrees in Delmar, NY. 🌁 Calm wind. There is a few piles of snow on the ground that are rapidly turning to mud. ️Temperatures will drop below freezing at around 10 pm. ☃️

Off bright 🔆 and early to bail out Big Red. At least he passed the inspection and he shouldn’t need much now with the extremely limited winter driving schedule 🚘 that I have. $75 bucks isn’t a big bail fee, but then again I heard they’re doing away with cash bail. Maybe they aren’t doing away with that kind of bail. I’ll transfer to the 905 and pick it up. I haven’t decided if I will drive downtown or head home after I pick it up. It would be kind of nice to drive home after the Pine Bush dinner but I don’t really want to deal with the inbound traffic and red-light cameras 🚥 in the city.

At least I got a good night’s sleep. 😴 For a while I’ve been really good at retiring to bed early and feeling good all day long at work but since I’ve been working on recoding the blog I’ve been staying up too late. Not good.

The one thing about riding the Early bus 🚍 is the creepy health department civil servant rides the bus and he wants to always wants to chat about such weird things. The guy is certainly an odd ball ⚽. I guess I can’t say much, he works for a living and pays taxes.

Today will have a slight chance of snow before 8am, then a slight chance of rain and snow between 8am and 11am, then a slight chance of rain after 11am. Mostly cloudy 🌧, with a high of 39 degrees at 12pm. Seven degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around December 6th. Calm wind becoming northwest 5 to 9 mph in the morning. Chance of precipitation is 20%. A year ago, we had light snow in the morning with more sun in the afternoon. The high last year was 39 degrees. The record high of 72 was set in 1991. 3.4 inches of snow fell back in 1961.❄

The sun will set at 4:29 pm with dusk around 4:59 pm, which is 45 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌇 At sunset, look for rain 🌧 and temperatures around 36 degrees. There will be a northwest breeze at 9 mph. Today will have 9 hours and 36 minutes of daytime, an increase of one minute and 58 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will be mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming mostly clear ☁, with a low of 29 degrees at 5am. One degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical night around November 24th. Northwest wind 6 to 10 mph. In 2018, we had partly cloudy skies in the evening, which became cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 17 degrees. The record low of 7 occurred back in 1879.

Right now, a split verdict on the weekend. 😕 Saturday, mostly sunny, with a high near 41. Sunday, a chance of rain and snow showers before 11am, then a chance of rain showers between 11am and 1pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 42. Chance of precipitation is 40%. Typical average high for the weekend is 45 degrees.

Right now I’m leaning towards staying in town this weekend ✒ and finishing up the blog redesign because next week is a three day work week I believe and then I could spend the long weekend after Thanksgiving up north. But who knows – it could be cold and snowy by then. Tough decision. I miss nights 🌃 in the wilderness but camping for one night especially in the winter is a lot of work.

As previously noted, there are 2 weeks until Average High is 40 🌨 when the sun will be setting at 4:22 pm with dusk at 4:54 pm. That means we’re in the meat 🍖 of winter through late February. On that day in 2018, we had mist showers, partly cloudy and temperatures between 39 and 21 degrees. We hit a record high of 63 back in 1998.