Good morning! What day is it? Hump Day, of course. Next Wednesday is 37th Birthday 🎉. Completely cloudy and gray and 15 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☁ Calm wind. Without the wind it doesn’t feel particularly. There are 2 inches of snow on the ground. ☃ ️Things will start to thaw out at around 1 pm. 🌡️

Today will be sunny 🌞, with a high of 35 degrees at 2pm. Five degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around February 15th. Calm wind. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies. The high last year was 18 degrees. The record high of 62 was set in 1906. 12.9 inches of snow fell back in 1987.❄

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:07 pm with sun having an altitude of 27.6° from the due south horizon (-43.2° vs. 6/21). The golden hour 🏅 starts at 4:12 pm with the sun in the southwest (236°). 📸 Might be a real golden one today. The sunset is in the west-southwest (244°) starting at 4:52 pm and lasts for 3 minutes and 15 seconds with dusk around 5:25 pm, which is one minute and 15 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 The best time to look at the stars is after 6:01 pm. At sunset, look for mostly clear skies 🌃 and temperatures around the freezing point. There will be a calm wind. Today will have 9 hours and 36 minutes of daytime, an increase of one minute and 57 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will have increasing clouds ☁, with a low of 12 degrees at 6am. Two degrees below normal. Calm wind. In 2019, we had partly cloudy skies in the evening, which became cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 9 degrees. The record low of -20 occurred back in 1970.

Sloppy weekend on tap. ☔ Saturday, snow likely before 10am, then rain and snow. High near 38. Chance of precipitation is 90%. Sunday, rain and snow likely before 1pm, then rain likely between 1pm and 4pm, then rain and snow likely after 4pm. Cloudy, with a high near 37. Chance of precipitation is 70%. Typical average high for the weekend is 31 degrees.

Listening to Malvina Reynolds sing, What Have They Done to the Rain? ☔ While the levels of Strontium 90 and Cesium 137, have fallen in recent decades, now we have to worry about PFAS in the rain water 💦.

🌹🌻🌼Only 57 days remain until the first day of calendar spring!🌹🌻🌼

As previously noted, next Wednesday is 37th Birthday 🎉 when the sun will be setting at 5:04 pm with dusk at 5:34 pm. On that day in 2019, we had snow showers and temperatures between 29 and 5 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 31 degrees. We hit a record high of 54 back in 2002.