January 30, 2017 Night

Good evening! Mostly clear and 20 degrees in Delmar. There is a west-northwest breeze at 10 mph. A fairly cool evening. The current wind chill is 9. I was a bit chilly waiting out for the bus this evening when I left work at 7:30. 

They got the new solar lights turned on at the bus stop at Washington and Swan NY the Education Building. More light makes it safer later into the evening and just makes the stop more pleasant. Recently, after a long period of many of the street lights malfunctioning downtown by the Capitol, National Grid restored them and they are back working again. It was bad for a while with how few streetlights worked downtown, especially because they used the dimmer mercury vapor lights around the Capitol in an effort to be more historic at least in a 1950s sense downtown. 

Tonight will be partly cloudy, with a low of 12 degrees at 4am. Three degrees below normal. West wind 5 to 10 mph becoming light southwest after midnight. In 2016, it got down to 36 degrees under mostly cloudy skies. The record low of -26 occurred back in 1948.

Earlier tonight there was a big beautiful crescent moon that I saw from the bus coming home this evening. It was really beautiful. The First Quarter Moon is on Saturday night with mostly cloudy skies expected. The Full “Snow” Moon is on Saturday, February 11th. The sun will rise at 7:09 am with the first light at 6:40 am, which is 1 minutes and 1 seconds earlier then yesterday. Tonight will have 14 hours and 1 minutes of darkness, a decrease of 2 minutes and 20 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will have a slight chance of snow before 10am, then snow likely after 11am.  Mostly cloudy, with a high of 28 degrees at 1pm. Three degrees below normal. South wind 5 to 8 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New snow accumulation of around an inch possible. A year ago, we had mostly cloudy skies and a high of 52 degrees. The record high of 58 was set in 1913. 6.9 inches of snow fell back in 2000.

Right now, a split verdict on the weekend. Saturday, partly sunny, with a high near 27. Sunday, mostly cloudy, with a high near 30. Cool but nice weather might be delightful on Saturday.Typical average high for the weekend is 32 degrees.

In four weeks on February 27 the sun will be setting at 5:43 pm, which is 36 minutes later then tonight. In 2016 on that day, we had snow and temperatures between 39 and 17 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 38 and 20 degrees. The record high of 61 degrees was set back in 1997.

Looking ahead, Presidents Day is in 3 weeks, Patriots Day is in 11 weeks, May Day is in 13 weeks and Memorial Day is in 17 weeks.