Good morning! Happy School Election Tuesday. 🚸 It’s the only time of the year that you have the ability to directly reject or approve government spending, and speak out about our education system, so I always make sure to vote. Five weeks to Primary Day 🗳️. Likewise that is an important date at least in Albany County local elections where everything is decided on primary day.

Partly cloudy and 52 degrees at bus stop 🚍 near the Valero. ⛅ Breezy, ️20 mph breeze from the west-northwest 🌬 with gusts up to 31 mph 💨💨💨. It wasn’t a bad walk down to the school 🚸 to vote today. It was a quick enough of a process that I was able to catch the earlier local to work. Generally it looks like it will be a pleasant day.

Today will be mostly sunny 🌞, with a high of 66 degrees at 3pm. Five degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around May 5th. Breezy, with a northwest wind 20 to 24 mph, with gusts as high as 39 mph. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies. The high last year was 78 degrees. The record high of 92 was set in 1941. There was a dusting of snow in 1895.❄

It made it easy this morning as I have my lunch at work from yesterday as I got lunch at the Haitian Day yesterday. 🍲 So I just made up some waffles, topped with blueberries and had some coffee. ☕ Voted ❎ and now off to work. 🚍 I’ll actually be in early to the office today, which is good because I was late yesterday. I think I’ll drop off my jackets – maybe all of them – to be dried cleaned on Thursday morning. 👔

The sun will set at 8:17 pm with dusk around 8:50 pm, which is 58 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At sunset, look for mostly clear skies 🌄 and temperatures around 60 degrees. Breezy, 18 mph breeze ⛅ from the northwest with gusts up to 28mph. Might be a nice evening for a walk 🚶, and sitting out back assuming I get home at a reasonable hour.

Today will have 14 hours and 50 minutes of daytime, an increase of one minute and 48 seconds over yesterday. Only thirty more days of the days getting longer, as the first day of summer is just around the corner. ☀ 🏊

Tonight will be mostly clear 🌃, with a low of 47 degrees at 5am. Two degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical night around May 17th. Northwest wind 13 to 18 mph decreasing to 7 to 12 mph after midnight. Winds could gust as high as 28 mph. In 2018, we had mostly clear skies in the evening, which became light rain by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 55 degrees. The record low of 33 occurred back in 2002.

I am still debating where to go this Memorial Day Weekend. ⛺ I actually think Vermont is closer then the Adirondacks and I am not crazy about listening to all the noise along NY 8 all weekend long. But I’m also kind of tired of spending holiday weekends in Vermont. Another option is backcountry camping ⛺ locally in where the black flies wouldn’t be so bad.

Looking ahead, there are 5 weeks until Primary Day 🗳️ when the sun will be setting at 8:37 pm with dusk at 9:12 pm. On that day in 2018, we had mostly sunny, rain showers and temperatures between 78 and 55 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 80 degrees. We hit a record high of 95 back in 1898.