Good morning! Happy Ides of March ✝! Good weather today for those friendly strangers cruising in their black sedans with the windows down. Ten weeks until Memorial Day Weekend. Black flies will be here before you know it. 🐜 Cloudy and 54 degrees in Delmar. ☁ Breezy, ️16 mph breeze from the south 🌬 . The dew point is 45 degrees. Temperatures will drop below freezing at tomorrow around 9 pm. ☃️

Nice mild morning, although certainly a little bit damp and cloudy. ☁ I think 💭 the rain ☔ has stopped, but I see more coming on the radar. But didn’t impact my walk down to the express bus.🚶 Caught the express bus 🚍 downtown from the Park and Ride. 🚏Brand new bus, has only 3,000 miles on it according to the driver, probably just from taking delivery. I’ve heard that many of the buses are driven rather than loaded on train to get from California. Gives them a chance break in the engines and buses are so large they’d be expensive freight to ship any other way. ✉ Maybe though I’m wrong. 😕 Some traffic 🚥 delays heading downtown but I get to enjoy the toxic 💀new bus smell.

Finally a nice warm day. I opened the windows this morning to let some fresh air. Not super warm yet but it’s warm enough that the heat hasn’t run for a day now. 🔥 Good for my budget for sure. 💵 As much work as wood heat may be I do like the idea 💡 of spending money on sweat rather than fossil fuels. Eventually I’ll be able to leave the windows open for good. 🍃 I almost thought about hanging out my flag but this morning ain’t that great.

Today will have showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm before noon, then a chance of showers. Cloudy, then gradually becoming mostly sunny 🌦, with a high of 64 degrees at 3pm. 20 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around April 28th. Yeap, it’s going to feel like a late April day. Going to be nice with all that fresh air in the apartment. Maximum dew point of 51 at 11am. South wind 10 to 16 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms. A year ago, we had partly cloudy in the morning, which became mostly sunny by afternoon. The high last year was 39 degrees. The record high of 72 was set in 1989. Probably not going to break that record. 10.4 inches of snow fell back in 1916.❄ And certainly not that one. 😂

The sun will set at 7:02 pm with dusk around 7:30 pm, which is one minute and 10 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At sunset, look for clearing skies 🌧 and temperatures around 57 degrees. There will be a west breeze at 8 mph. Today will have 11 hours and 56 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 54 seconds over yesterday.

I put some cold beer in the fridge that I got left over Brooklyn Night. Going to sit out back after work, next to the snow bank and drink 🍻 some beer after work. I might also go for a walk to the park for a while too. I thought about grilling the frozen burger 🍔 I have on my grill but I don’t have any hamburger buns and I’m kind of in a rush to get down to the park ⛲ before dark.

Tonight will have a slight chance of showers before midnight. Mostly cloudy 🌧, with a low of 37 degrees at 6am. 11 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around April 13th. West wind 7 to 11 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%. In 2018, we had mostly clear in the evening, which became partly cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 25 degrees. The record low of 4 occurred back in 1980. I like record lows above freezing.

Today in 44 BC, Julius Caesar, Dictator of the Roman Republic, is stabbed to death by Marcus Junius Brutus, Gaius Cassius Longinus, Decimus Junius Brutus, and several other Roman senators🔪 on the Ides of March. And of course that pop group the Ides of March released their hit single, Vehicle. 🎤🎵📀 Vehicle would go on to be one of the fastest growing pop hits of all times, an immediate success in March and April 1970, well until the Candian Rock Band, The Guess Who released American Women in mid-April, saturating the air play. Vehicle was quickly forgotten about although the oldies stations still play it a lot, because it is kind of a rocking good song. 🎛 Heck, I still like to turn it up, almost 50 years later — and it was an old song when I was born in 1983.

One month 📅 from now will be Tax Day 💰. I filed my taxes, but they got kicked back in the software, as I need to amend something that I made a mistake on. It’s actually good, the mistake is in my favor, not in the governments favor, so I’ll end up paying less. No fine, it’s just I made typo in my reporting which made my adjusted gross income look higher then it actually was. So many numbers you have to enter now that I’ve gotten older and done more on investing for my future.🏡

That said and the lower heating bills are going to be big help. 🔥 I’m really hoping over the next month I will only be using the heat modestly, as it’s now gotten to the point where it’s fairly mild — days in the 30s and 40s are much easier on the heating bills compared to 20s and 30s, especially as I tend to keep my heat set to around 50 in this weather. I can’t wait until the windows can be open for good ⏹ even if it means hot and sticky evenings. Their is cold beverages for that weather.🍹

Tomorrow will be partly sunny 🌞, with a high of 42 degrees at 3pm. Two degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around March 11th. Breezy, with a west wind 14 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 33 mph. A year ago, we had partly cloudy in the morning, which became mostly sunny by afternoon. The high last year was 32 degrees. The record high of 82 was set in 1990. 13.4 inches of snow fell back in 1956.❄ Sunday will be mostly sunny, with a high near 38. West wind 9 to 14 mph. ☀ Typical average high for the weekend is 44 degrees.

Not totally sure what my weekend plans will be, but I will probably stay in town, maybe go for a walk in the neighborhood. I’m not sure that this point if I am going to head into the city this weekend to keep working on Mr. Wolcott’s files 🗄as the St. Patricks Day parade will tie up things downtown, and Sunday I’m going out hiking. I got to look into the bus schedule more and think 🤔 about it some more.

Still haven’t installed the replacement battery 🔋 into my phone yet. Maybe later on this evening or tomorrow morning. I just want to make sure I can get it fully charged before using it. I just hate how fast things discharge on my phone now. 📱

In four weeks on April 12 the sun will be setting at 7:34 pm,🌄 which is 32 minutes and 7 seconds later then today. In 2018 on that day, we had rain showers, partly cloudy and temperatures between 54 and 29 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 57 and 36 degrees. The record high of 84 degrees was set back in 1977.

Looking ahead, Tax Day 💰 is a month away, Memorial Day Weekend Starts 🏕️ is in 10 weeks and Dog Days of Summer 🌻 is in 16 weeks.