Good morning! Happy Mothers Day 👩‍, you Mothers! I’ve been told by Merle that there are two kinds of mothers or so I’m told. I’ll have to play that Frank Zappa Mothers of Invention record. 🎶 Next Sunday is Pack Rat Day 🐀. Good excuse for a bonfire, just wait for it to get good and dark before burning anything too much black smoke. 🔥

Partly sunny and 42 degrees in Delmar, NY. ⛅ There is a west breeze at 10 mph. 🍃. Cool but fairly clear. Nice day by early April standards, mid May I don’t know.

Today will be partly sunny 🌞, with a high of 56 degrees at 4pm. 12 degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around April 11th. West wind 10 to 17 mph, with gusts as high as 29 mph. Might definitely want to bundle up a bit today with that breeze. A year ago, we had cloudy skies in the morning, which became light rain by afternoon. It became somewhat humid as the day progressed. The high last year was 69 degrees. The record high of 92 was set in 1970. 5 inches of snow fell back in 1945.❄ Only a few more weeks of recorded snow fall records.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:53 pm with sun having an altitude of 65.2° from the due south horizon (-5.7° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 2.8 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 7:26 pm with the sun in the west-northwest (289°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-northwest (296°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 8:06 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 11 seconds with dusk around 8:37 pm, which is one minute and 5 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 The best time to look at the stars is after 9:18 pm. At sunset, look for rain 🌧 and temperatures around 52 degrees. There will be a west-northwest breeze at 8 mph. Today will have 14 hours and 28 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 14 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will have a chance of showers, mainly after 5am. Mostly cloudy 🌧, with a low of 41 degrees at 5am. Five degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical night around April 27th. West wind 5 to 8 mph becoming light and variable after midnight. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. In 2019, we had mostly clear skies in the evening, which became cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 47 degrees. The record low of 29 occurred back in 2010.

As previously noted, next Sunday is Pack Rat Day 🐀 when the sun will be setting at 8:13 pm with dusk at 8:45 pm. On that day in 2019, we had mostly cloudy skies, rain showers and temperatures between 73 and 52 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 70 degrees. We hit a record high of 92 back in 2017.