Good morning and, perhaps most importantly, HAPPY SOLSTICE!! Today is the so-called “shortest day of the year”, which simply means that 9:03am this morning, the sun will appear directly over the Tropic of Cancer (somewhere over the Atlantic Ocean) and this will mark the moment that Earth’s tilt is greatest in relation to the plane of the sun. Because we are tilted so far away from the sun, the amount of daylight we receive is the least of the entire year. 

The good news? After today, the days start getting longer again !!

Also good news: that horrifically cold and snowy start to winter is now firmly in the rearview mirror and, to the chagrin of winter-lovers everywhere, the pattern has shifted dramatically to one where we may see a high of 60 degrees on Christmas Day LOL.

For today: temps will be chilly, with highs around freezing, but skies will be sunny. 

Increasing clouds and even a bit of light rain is possible tonight through tomorrow. But temps will be quite warm with highs in the mid-40s. 

The warmth is expected to persist through the week as a gigantic ridge of warm high pressure settles in over the middle of the country. Highs will be in the 40s through Wednesday. 

Light rain is again possible on Xmas eve as a warm front pushes through the region, sending temps into the 50s to near 60 on Christmas Day. Looking even further ahead - I don’t see any prolonged winter weather occurring through at least January 4!

Tl;dr - Happy Solstice! 32F and sunny today. Cloudy, light rain tomorrow: 42F. 40s this week, 60 on Xmas? Bye 4 now, winter :)

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