Good morning! Yeah, it’s Friday! Currently 24 degrees with lots of sun but breezy with a 21 mph west wind, with gusts up to 30 mph. The wind chill value is currently 9. With the bright sun, it doesn’t feel that cold though. Wear a sweater and keep most, you’ll be fine out there.

It was a pretty nice walk down to the Park and Ride, although I didn’t wake up quite as early as some mornings because I got watching a video on my laptop, and lost track of time. Those bushcraft videos you can find on the YouTube are pretty interesting. The blue skies are nice this morning, regardless if you don’t like the cold. Between PBS Newshour and other PBS programs, YouTube videos, and other content, there really is a lot of interesting things to watch.

Today will be sunny, with a high near 30. Blustery, with a northwest wind 17 to 22 mph, with gusts as high as 37 mph. Typical late February weather. Tonight the sun will set at 5:40 pm with darkness around 6:09 pm, which is 1 minutes and 15 seconds later than yesterday. Today will have 11 hours and 6 minutes of daylight, an increase of 2 minutes and 50 seconds over yesterday. That’s nearly three more minutes!

Tonight will be mostly clear, with a low around 14. Northwest wind 5 to 14 mph. Cold night for late February on tap. The weekend will be a fair bit warmer, especially Sunday where they say it might reach 50 in the city.

Tomorrow is my sister’s baby shower then I’m heading up to the Adirondacks to camp. I will pack tonight and pick up any required supplies in Glens Falls after the shower. Sunday I’ll either hike Hadley or maybe that trail in Warrensburg or maybe somewhere else. We will see.

There are 1 month, 28 days until Arbor Day when the sun will be setting at 7:49 pm (Daylight Savings Time).

Today back in 1929,  President Calvin Coolidge signs an executive order establishing the 96,000 acre Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming, one of the great jewels of the national park system.

Also in 1972, the Buffalo Creek flood caused by a burst dam kills 125 in West Virginia. Dam safely is important.

Happy Birthday to the late Johnny Cash and the very much still alive but elderly Fats Domino. Both had some remarkably good songs back in their days. They have a nice sunny day, at least in Albany to celebrate their birthdays.