Good Morning: How to Enjoy That Extra Hour of Sleep Even More

Today it won't get any warmer than 52 degrees, but it will be sunny. On the other hand, with a northerly breeze of about 10 miles per hour kicking in, it will feel like 47 degrees. Yes, the wind chill factor is here. Here's a sneak preview of Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday: Also sunny and highs in the lower 60's.

Did you set your clocks back an hour? All of them? Or are you like me, and this particular project takes a while because everything has a clock built into it. If the reason that you haven't reset a clock on particular gizmo is because you haven't a clue how to do it and you've lost the instructions (press button for A for 5 seconds, then press C and D to get into time mode), your salvation may be Manuals Online, a comprehensive collection of operation manuals for the technological era.

We may never get Congress to repeal the twice-a-year clock change, but maybe as a compromise we can move the day that we go from Daylight Saving Time to Standard Time from Sunday to Monday. The extra hour of sleep is kind of wasted on a Sunday.

Good Morning: Get Used to the Word "Cooler"

Cooler. And cooler. Get used to it. Not only that, but soon you'll be feeling nostalgic about the world cooler, when weather forecasters start using the word cold. It's November, and November brings not just turkeys, but brisk northerly winds. After dropping down to the mid-30's overnight, today's temperature won't get higher than the lower 50's.

Nobody probably needs reminding, but here's a reminder anyway: Turn your clocks back an hour sometime between now and Sunday morning. The official witching hour is Sunday at 2am, but it's really okay to do it anytime on Saturday or Sunday, just as long as you tell everyone else in your household what you've done, lest they get to where they need to be an hour early. Or an hour late. Or whatever. This twice-a-year time change thing is too confusing!

Good Morning: No, You Didn't Miss the End of Daylight Saving Time

After an overnight low in the 40's today will see a high of about 53 degrees. Tuesday will be a carbon copy of Monday. And both days will be sunny, with not a chance of rain.

The question that's been burning in your mind is "When does daylight savings time end?" That question was one of the top searches in Google today. The answer is next Sunday, November 7th.

I think that people want to know when the clocks change in part because we need to know and in part because we want to get it over with already. There are lots of reasons why we change the clocks twice a year. There's a lot of history, a lot of tradition. And a lot of..stupidity. Two states, Arizona and Hawaii, and several territories, including Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands don't "celebrate" daylight savings time. The people who live there get to miss all the fun of figuring how to change the clocks on what seems to be every appliance and piece of technology.