March 19, 2016 Night

As we head into the 10 o’clock hour, we are right about freezing on this moonlit night. Despite the moonlight, the stars are pretty nice. There is a slight northwest breeze this evening but really quite pleasant for mid-March. About 3/4rd of the Waxing Gibbous Moon is visible tonight until around 3:30 in the morning. The low tonight is expected to be around 19 degrees which is about 8 degrees below normal. 11 hours and 48 minutes of darkness tonight.

Tomorrow will start out sunny but with increasing clouds as the day progresses. Sunrise tomorrow is around 6:55 AM but darkness will fade away about an half hour earlier. Cool day on tap tomorrow, the mercury is expected only to reach 40 degrees, which is about 7 degrees below for the first day of spring. Temperatures back in the fifties for the second half of the week. The snow storm heading up the coast may bring some clouds and maybe a flurry to Albany, but for the most part I think it will be a non event for us.

Save the Pine Bush Hike is tomorrow at 2 pm. I’m leading it from Blueberry Hill East at 13 Columbia Circle near the Kiddie Academy. It’s at 2 pm. It should be a nice hike, even if the clouds start to prevail by later in the afternoon.

So tomorrow is the first day of spring. 30 days left until tax day which happens to be April 18th this year due to a federal holiday. I’ve done my taxes but I owe the state $200. But on a more positive note, April 18th has an average high of 60 degrees which would be nice after the recent frigid weather. Civil twilight aka full darkness doesn’t come on that day until 8:11 pm. Day length grows quickly around that first day of spring.

Decided to dump the blog post templates I’ve been using in recent months to get back to a more free-form blogging style. They were convenient but didn’t really save much time, and just seemed literally scripted, because they were. I did put together an internal portal, so I could easily reference the weather data I needed for my blog posts.

Went for my evening walk. While not real warm out, it still is pretty pleasant. I can’t complain about the weather and the later sunsets but I still wish summer would be here sooner than later.

Left my laptop at my parent’s house, which means I can’t upload the photos I took today. Kind of annoying. I don’t use my laptop that much anymore now that I have my Smartphone, but I do need it to transfer photos from my camera to my phone and for map creation purposes. Oh well. It’s much more devastating to not have a working phone. That said, I had a pretty nice St. Patrick’s Dinner at my parents house. I did Sunday dinner a day early due to the possibility of snow tomorrow evening.

All and all I think it was a pretty good Saturday, even if it got off to a lazy start.

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