Good morning! Monday’s come back around again. Yeapers, I forgot to set my alarm clock. ⏰It’s unfortunate that I can’t sleep through winter like most of the groundhogs do but I need the money. Two weeks to Presidents Day.👹 Partly sunny and 22 degrees in Delmar. ⛅Breezy, 23 mph breeze from the west-northwest with gusts up to 34 mph. 💨💨The current wind chill is 6. Didn’t seem that cold at the bus stop but I’m sure the wind is blowing around downtown. 

Only 43 days remain until the first day of calendar spring!

Today will be sunny, with a high of 25 degrees at 1pm. Five degrees below normal.☀  Blustery, with a northwest wind 15 to 23 mph, with gusts as high as 34 mph. A year ago, we had cloudy skies. The high last year was 37 degrees. The record high of 59 was set in 1890. 10.4 inches of snow fell back in 2014.❄

The sun will set at 5:15 pm with dusk around 5:44 pm, which is one minute and 19 seconds later than yesterday. 🌄At sunset, look for mostly clear conditions and 22 degrees. The wind chill around sunset will be 9. There will be a west-northwest breeze at 14 mph. 💨Today will have 10 hours and 11 minutes of daytime, a decrease of 2 minutes and 30 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will have a slight chance of snow showers after 1am. Increasing clouds, with a low of 16 degrees at 12am.☁ Typical for tonight. Maximum wind chill around 8 at 6pm; West wind 5 to 10 mph becoming south after midnight. Chance of precipitation is 20%. In 2017, we had light snow in the evening, remaining overcast into the early morning. It got down to 25 degrees. The record low of -20 occurred back in 1948.

The past few days, have not been the best luck for me. Mostly just stupid shit. 💩 I forgot to set my alarm clock, so I overslept by about 15 minutes. ⏰ I’m a slow riser so I always build a little time in my schedule. I’m well rested so that’s good. 🕤 I caught the usual bus that I catch on Mondays so that worked out. Yesterday I added a time chip to my LED light fixtures but ended up wiring or all backwards twice trying to figure out why it wasn’t working. I had to move around some of the control pins :idea:so I could access the serial line but when I did it I accidentally hooked things up to pins on the same timer as the irremote so I had to unsolder and resolder them. 🔬 Getting good on soldering though. And then I broke the plexiglass on the variable message display when I was pulling the max7219 modules to see why they weren’t working properly with the new Arduino Nano that will be permanently driving that. Among other failures. But I will repair things, and I’m getting good at soldering. Practice matters! 

As previously noted, there are 2 weeks until Presidents Day when the sun will be setting at 5:33 pm with dusk at 6:01 pm.👹 On that day in 2017, we had mostly sunny skies and temperatures between 52 and 31 degrees.☀ I don’t remember it being that warm cross country skiing at Rensselaerville State Forest but I’m thinking Presidents Day fell on a different calendar day that year. 😮Typically, the high temperature is 36 degrees. We hit a record high of 66 back in 1981.