It's The Winter Solstice

Mornin'!  Winter's arrived!  It's 37° in Wildwood NJ.  It's relatively mild as we're currently covered in Fog with N-NW breezes at 4-6mph.  Everything's dripping wet outside.  When standing out in the quiet morning, all that surrounds you is the dripping sounds.  Not even a seagull squawking is heard this morning.  Today's the shortest day of the year due to the way the Earth is leaning and tilting away from the Sun.  After today, the Earth begins to lean the opposite way creating longer days until we reach the first day of Summer (the longest day of the year).  If you were above the Arctic Circle, you would have no daylight at all today. Expect a mostly cloudy Monday with areas of patchy fog in the early part of the day.  We could see some peeks of sun this afternoon with a high of 42° and W-NW winds at 5-10mph.  Tonight... mostly cloudy with 70% chance of rain showers into the overnight.  Temps will be in the low-40s and SW winds will be kicking up a bit at 10-20mph.  Tomorrow... mid-upper 40s, partly cloudy with gusty winds.  Just after the sun sets today, Jupiter and Saturn will appear almost touching creating such a bright light that it will shine as "The Christmas Star" or "The Great Conjunction".  This encounter hasn't happened since 1623!  I'm so disappointed to report that here along the eastern coast, the clouds will probably prevent us from viewing this spectacular event. I'm not thrilled to be reporting that our skies along with all the skies surrounding us... Philadelphia (and suburbs), New York, Pocono Mts., Delaware, Maryland and Virginia will very possibly be clouded over tonight. But, if the skies are clear (even partially clear), we could see this event that hasn't happened in 800 years. Happy Winter!

High tide: 12:48PM
Low tide: 7:12PM
Ocean temp: 49°
Sunrise: 7:15
Sunset: 4:40PM
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