Good morning! Happy Thursday. Four weeks to Average High is 40 ☀️ . Partly cloudy and 27 degrees in Delmar, NY. ⛅ There was more sun when I started my walk, then it disappeared. There is a northwest breeze at 8 mph. 🍃. There are 9.5 inches of snow on the ground. ☃ ️Definately melting and the sidewalks are getting better although still icy and slippery in a few places. But at least the snow banks have been removed. Things will start to thaw out at around noontime. 🌡️

Waking up this morning with the sun streaming in my bedroom, I thought I had overslept but that wasn’t really the case. But then as I was walking, it started to cloud up again. Hopefully they aren’t wrong about the forecast today. Sidewalks are good both my walk last night and this morning.

Today will be mostly sunny 🌞, with a high of 36 degrees at 3pm. Four degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around February 19th. Nice mild, sunny day, that is once the sky clears out Northwest wind 7 to 9 mph. A year ago, we had cloudy skies in the morning with more sun in the afternoon. The high last year was 45 degrees. The record high of 61 was set in 1991. 15.5 inches of snow fell back in 1926.❄

I am thinking later today, I will head to the store and then go to the library and work down there for the balance of the afternoon. I expect today with the sun to be warm enough later that it will I shouldn’t be too cool when I’m working down there. I also turned the heat down in my apartment as I’m not worried about things getting too cold over the next few days and it’s good to save energy and money.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:10 pm with sun having an altitude of 31.3° from the due south horizon (-39.6° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 9.9 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 4:32 pm with the sun in the west-southwest (242°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-southwest (249°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 5:13 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 7 seconds with dusk around 5:42 pm, which is one minute and 20 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 The best time to look at the stars is after 6:17 pm. At sunset, look for mostly clear skies 🌄 and temperatures around 32 degrees. There will be a northwest breeze at 6 mph. Today will have 10 hours and 7 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 28 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will have increasing clouds ☁, with a low of 18 degrees at 1am. Three degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around February 17th. Light and variable wind. In 2020, we had cloudy skies in the evening, which became partly cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 29 degrees. The record low of -15 occurred back in 1918.

A picture perfect weekend on tap. 😎 Saturday, mostly sunny, with a high near 31. West wind 7 to 10 mph. Sunday, a chance of snow showers after 1pm. Partly sunny, with a high near 32. Chance of precipitation is 30%. Typical average high for the weekend is 33 degrees.

🌹🌻🌼Only 44 days remain until the first day of calendar spring!🌹🌻🌼 One day closer to spring. With the warmth of the sun — at least until the clouds popped over it, you could definitely feel like spring was coming.

As previously noted, next Thursday is Don’t Cry over Spilled Milk Day 🥛 when the sun will be setting at 5:22 pm with dusk at 5:51 pm. On that day in 2020, we had cloudy, rain showers and temperatures between 39 and 34 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 34 degrees. We hit a record high of 59 back in 1981.