Maybe no tulips yet but it’s going to be a real nice one – I’ve seen daffodils starting to spring up and probably in warmer more sheltered parts of the woods coltfoot can be found. I’m sure we’ll still have cold blasts like on Thursday but it gets harder and harder for extended cold come March.
Good morning! Happy Tuesday. Starting out cold but will warm up quickly. Partly sunny and 37 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☀ Calm wind.
Definitely riding to work today, 🚲 leaving early so I can possibly ride up via the upper Menands ramp to extend the ride on this beautiful morning. 🌅 Plus I always have a stack of work to do over at Data Services, as the data keeps pouring in. 🖥 Don’t get me wrong, I love 😍 the work but it’s non stop. Data is dirty, it needs processing, manually and programmatically, has to be synced to the databases and user 👤 permissions updated. The work never stops in the world of data. 🔢 I’m becoming such a pro with unix textutils – awk, sed, tr, grep and cut are my go to tools ⚙.
Today will have a chance of showers, mainly after 5pm. Mostly sunny 🌞, with a high of 63 degrees at 3pm. 24 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around April 22nd. I’ll take late April weather in February. Already opened a bunch of windows to let the smoke from cooking 🍳 and steam from showering out. 🌬️ Going to be windy, and you got to wonder about red flag 🚩 conditions although there is snow in the mountains ⛰ remaining for now. Light south wind increasing to 13 to 18 mph in the morning. Winds could gust as high as 30 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies in the morning with a few breaks of sun the afternoon. The high last year was 35 degrees. The record high of 61 was set in 1997. 3.6 inches of snow fell back in 2019.❄
Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:09 pm with sun having an altitude of 38.9° from the due south horizon (-31.9° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 7.4 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 5:04 pm with the sun in the west-southwest (253°). 📸 The sunset is in the west (259°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 5:42 pm after setting for 2 minutes and 57 seconds with dusk around 6:10 pm, which is one minute and 15 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 The best time to look at the stars is after 6:43 pm. At sunset, look for rain 🌧 and temperatures around 60 degrees. Breezy, 16 mph breeze ⛅ from the south with gusts up to 28mph. Today will have 11 hours and 10 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 50 seconds over yesterday.
Tonight will have showers. 🌧 Low of 51 degrees at 7pm. 30 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around May 24th. Maximum dew point of 50 at 6am. 🏖️ South wind 14 to 16 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. Leave the windows open? In 2023, we had cloudy skies in the evening, which became light snow by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 26 degrees. The record low of -10 occurred back in 1950.
Right now, a split verdict on the weekend. 😕 Saturday, mostly cloudy, with a high near 51. Sunday, partly sunny, with a high near 57. Typical average high for the weekend is 40 degrees. Still looks great for camping 🏕 but I got to be careful with fire.
Looking ahead, there are 3 weeks until Last Day of Winter 🏂 when the sun will be setting at 7:08 pm with dusk at 7:35 pm (Daylight Savings Time). On that day in 2023, we had partly sunny, snow showers and temperatures between 33 and 22 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 46 degrees. We hit a record high of 78 back in 2012.
