Good morning! Happy Tuesday. 😀 Not a Friday, but if I look at the calendar, it can’t be that far away. Ready for some nuisance snow this evening? But maybe there is hope. Probably not though, he’s going to see his shadow based on the forecast. Next Tuesday is Ground Hog Day 🐻 . Mostly cloudy and 19 degrees in Delmar, NY. 🌤 Calm wind. There are 0.5 inches of snow on the ground but more is coming. ☃ ️The skies will clear Thursday around 10 am. And be cold!

Sunny and decently warm for the morning walk 🚶🏻. I was kind of groggy this morning but I put some English muffins in the oven and had my coffee ☕. Feeling better now I am out for my morning walk. Running a little late today but it will be fine. Things will get done and I have my phone.

Still kind of devastated at some level about the death of Mr Frantz my High School social studies and history teacher. 😢 Seventy one seems pretty young to die, although I guess it is are living through a pandemic and only the good die young. 👨🏻‍🏫 Been two decades though since I last saw him and I guess time moves on. I always thought he was a lot older for sure. He was such a good teacher and so influential on who I became.

Landlord and the plumber came by later in the afternoon, 🔧 and with some grinding, acetylene torches setting off the smoke detector, and other distractions while I worked in my virtual office, things got fixed. Apparently the old water heater had been leaking for some time, and the leaking water in the overflow drain pipe had frozen which caused it it to overflow and fall into my living room. The landlord the past two times had gotten these really cheap Whirlpool heaters, but finally got a better quality one or so the plumber told me. At least I was happy that wasn’t that big of a deal and got fixed. 👍🏻

Today will snow, mainly after 2pm. 🌨 High of 28 degrees at 1pm. Three degrees below normal. Calm wind becoming southeast around 5 mph in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 90%. Total daytime snow accumulation of 1 to 3 inches possible. A year ago, we had light drizzle in the morning, which became cloudy by afternoon. The high last year was 43 degrees. The record high of 59 was set in 1950. 8.5 inches of snow fell back in 1949.❄

Yesterday would have been a good day to go down to the library 📚 with the free unlimited internet because snow 🌨 this afternoon and much colder the second half of the week. The sun ☀ is nice today but I don’t expect it to last long with snow coming. I guess it’s fine, I had backed up my blog on Thursday. If there is a video I want to watch I can do it on my phone. Used a bit more Hotspot data than I would have hoped yesterday scrolling 📜 through Twitter while the plumber was there. I’m glad though that I got the issues fixed with the corrupt SSH keys yesterday so I can do all the necessary things on the blog.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:09 pm with sun having an altitude of 28.8° from the due south horizon (-42.1° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 10.9 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 4:19 pm with the sun in the west-southwest (238°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-southwest (245°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 5:01 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 12 seconds with dusk around 5:31 pm, which is one minute and 17 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At dusk you’ll see the Full 🌝 Moon in the east (80°) at an altitude of 28° from the horizon, 243,960 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 6:06 pm. At sunset, look for snow 🌨 and temperatures around 28 degrees. There will be a east-southeast breeze at 5 mph. Today will have 9 hours and 46 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 9 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will snow. 🌨 Low of 26 degrees at 12am. 11 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around March 14th. East wind around 5 mph becoming light and variable after midnight. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New snow accumulation of 1 to 3 inches possible. In 2020, we had light drizzle in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 35 degrees. The record low of -23 occurred back in 1994.

Cool this weekend with temperatures running 10 degrees below normal but otherwise sunny. 😃 Saturday, sunny, with a high near 18. Sunday, partly sunny, with a high near 24. Typical average high for the weekend is 31 degrees.

🌹🌻🌼Only 53 days remain until the first day of calendar spring!🌹🌻🌼 I count the days down each day. For whatever you think of the winter, the sun angle is getting stronger and days will get warmer. The sun is shining and it’s much nicer than even a few weeks ago. We are actively beyond the coldest time of the year now.

As previously noted, next Tuesday is Ground Hog Day 🐻 when the sun will be setting at 5:10 pm with dusk at 5:40 pm. On that day in 2020, we had partly cloudy, snow showers and temperatures between 37 and 28 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 32 degrees. We hit a record high of 53 back in 1981.