Good morning! Today’s Average High is 40 🐸. But it looks like the cold will stick around and that is not to be. Next Sunday is Daylight Savings Time Begins. 🌅 Mostly cloudy and 35 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☁ There is a north-northwest breeze at 9 mph. 🍃. The nice sunny forecast for today has been replaced with cloudy skies and cooler than expected weather. Temperatures will drop below freezing at around 5 pm. ☃️ But at least yesterday was quite nice.

🌹🌻🌼Only 16 days remain until the first day of calendar spring!🌹🌻🌼

Today will have a slight chance of rain and snow between 11am and 1pm, then a chance of snow. Mostly cloudy, with a high of 36 degrees at 9am. ☁Four degrees below normal. Northwest wind 9 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph.💨 Chance of precipitation is 30%. Total daytime snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible. A year ago, we had partly cloudy skies. The high last year was 23 degrees. The record high of 59 was set in 1919. 8.3 inches of snow fell back in 1971.❄

The sun will set at 5:49 pm with dusk around 6:17 pm, which is one minute and 13 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At sunset, look for snow showers and 33 degrees.❄ There will be a northwest breeze at 14 mph with gusts up to 24mph. Today will have 11 hours and 25 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 53 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will have a slight chance of snow before 10pm, then a slight chance of snow after 3am. Mostly cloudy, with a low of 27 degrees at 11pm.☁ Four degrees above normal. Maximum wind chill around 18 at 12am; Northwest wind 9 to 13 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%. In 2017, we had clear skies. It got down to 5 degrees. The record low of -12 occurred back in 1948.

I don’t know about you, but I am quite disappointed with today’s forecast. 🐣It was supposed to be quite nice but has slid steadily downhill in the past 24 hours. I might still strap on my skis and check out the deep snow in Berne 🏂but the cloudy skies do little to excite me.

Today in 1985, Food and Drug Administration approves a blood test for AIDS infection, used since then for screening all blood donations in the United States. 💉In 1917, Jeannette Rankin of Montana becomes the first female member of the United States House of Representatives. 🙋And in 1957, S&P 500 stock market index is introduced, replacing the S&P 90.📈

As previously noted, next Sunday is Daylight Savings Time Begins 🌅 when the sun will be setting at 6:57 pm with dusk at 7:25 pm (Daylight Savings Time). On that day in 2017, we had snow, cloudy skies and temperatures between 22 and 7 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 42 degrees. We hit a record high of 70 back in 1977.