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The last 2 weeks have been snowy snowy and bitter cold, like day time minus 20 windchill.

Fortunately we (Minneapolis) are on a definite warming trend starting now, Monday morning. Wind chill PLUS 16 at noon.

Tuesday it gets like hotter than hell, high of 41 deg F (regular thermometer temperature).

Wednesday, Thursday almost the same as Tuesday

--and then--

Friday: windchill MINUS 8 at noon.

Not much precip during the week, good..

I fell in deep snow a couple times on the 9th carrying a ton of groceries home (part of my exercise routine) and risking taking a shortcut, so am glad to see some of the snow melt. The biggest issue of falling down is having stuff come out of my pockets. That's happened before, but fortunately not this time. It would have been sheer heck finding some important lost item(s) in the deep snow.

ETA - I just noticed that sunset arrives later today, 4:32 PM, up from 4:31 PM for the last several days, which was the seasonal earliest sunset time. Yeah! more daylight in the evening at last.

Note the shortest day is, as always, the Solstice day, this year Dec 21.

Sunrises keep getting later and later until about January 2.

I don't know why, I think it has to do with earth's elliptical orbit.

https://www.timeanddate.com/sun