Good evening! Partly clear and 26 degrees in Delmar. Calm wind. It’s cool out there but not too bad without the wind.

Tonight will snow, mainly after 3am. Low of 26 degrees at 10pm. Typical for tonight. Warming up as the snow pushes in. Roads might be slick come morning. Calm wind becoming southeast 5 to 7 mph after midnight. Chance of precipitation is 80%. Total nighttime snow accumulation of around an inch possible. In 2015, it got down to 27 degrees under partly cloudy skies. The record low of 2 occurred back in 1989.

Waxing Crescent Moon tonight with 36% illuminated. The moon will set around 11:21 pm. The First Quarter Moon is on Tuesday night with mostly cloudy expected. The Full “Cold” Moon is on Wednesday, December 14th. Not a terrible night to get out and enjoy it.

With the crappy weather on tap, I made sure to have everything I needed for the week. I don’t plan to drive until Saturday. I thought I was low on toilet paper but I had a box tucked away. Good for shitter paper through spring time. Also have lots of food and supplies so I should be good.

So new maps return to the blog. Finally got QGIS back up and running properly on my blog. Stay away from Quantum GIS on Ubuntu 16.10, the Python SIP library or something else is broken on it. After deleting my hard drive and downgrading to 16.04 long term support, I’m back in business. I made a bunch of maps, I’ll be featuring them on the blog in the coming weeks. Few things at least when I’m stuck inside make me happy compared to making maps. It’s a way of exploring places and remembering memories while playing with the mapping software.

Spent too much time today working on maps and writing and debugging PyGIS code for map making. The weather turned out to be fairly raw today and didn’t clear out to late. It kind of sucked, so I didn’t do anything walking or hiking today. Think I’m getting away from the health kick but I hope to be back at it this week.

It’s December so I’ve been having problems with sleeping. Dug out the dim red light bulb, killed all the other lights in my apartment and took a sleeping pill. Hopefully I won wake up mid night and stuck awake or have a nightmare where I’m stuck living in the city for the rest of my life and I can never go to the country, never see another farm or the countryside again.

Definitely a beautiful drive with the hills and mountains driving out to museums parents house for Sunday dinner via Selkirk Road and Copeland Hill Road. Haven’t been that way in a long time and it was getting close to dusk after a day when it had finally cleared on out.  I miss living out in the sticks, although I certainly spend a lot of time camping out there. Eventually though, I’ll own a house out there but I don’t want to put down roots in New York with the gun laws and the burn ban.

At one level I wish I had gone to the Adirondacks as it would have made the weekend seem more meaningful and memorable but I didn’t. Saved a lot of money by staying in town. It would have been pretty cold camping in the wilderness.

Tomorrow will snow before 10am, then rain and snow likely between 10am and 11am, then a chance of rain after 11am. High of 40 degrees at 1pm. Typical for Tomorrow. Southeast wind 7 to 10 mph becoming west in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New snow accumulation of 1 to 2 inches possible. A year ago, we had partly cloudy skies and a high of 47 degrees. The record high of 65 was set in 2001. 9 inches of snow fell back in 1902. The sun will rise at 7:10 am with the first light at 6:38 am, which is 59 seconds later then yesterday.

Looking ahead, Christmas is in 3 weeks, New Years Day is in 4 weeks, My 34th Birthday is in 8 weeks, Average High is 40 is in 3 months, Daylight Savings Time is in 14 weeks, Palm Sunday is in 18 weeks, Easter is in 19 weeks, Mother’s Day is in 23 weeks, Father’s Day is in 28 weeks and Independence Day is in 7 months. Of all those holidays, I can’t wait for independence Day. Sparklers are fun! 

Good night. Those sleeping pills are kicking in.