Good morning! Yeah, the final Friday of March! Trout Season starts on next Thursday. 🎣 Next Friday is Good Friday ✝️ . Clouds, damp and 59 degrees in Delmar, NY. Bring a rain coat to be safe. ☔ if you scroll down, you can see that there is a fair amount of rain still on the radar to the west. Mostly showers, but they’ll get you wet. There is a south breeze at 13 mph. 🍃. The dew point is 56 degrees. Temperatures will drop below freezing next Tuesday around 2 am. ☃️ Doesn’t look like a big snow storm but it’s something to watch next week, as I expect it to be mix of rain and snow, more slop then anything in the valley but maybe some accumulation in the hills.

Kind of a spring morning for the walk. 🐦 The birds are chirping, the air is damp with a musk of pollen 🌸 and corn silage 🌽 🐮 on it. I slept like a baby 🤱🏻 last night with the windows open 🔳and lots of fresh air. I think by the smell of the air 👃🏻 and the sprinkles coming down ☔ plus the radar 🕸 more rain is coming but it will clear up later. 🌥

Today will have showers and possibly a thunderstorm before 10am, then scattered showers and thunderstorms between 10am and 11am, then scattered showers after 11am. 🌦 High of 69 degrees at 2pm. 21 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around May 16th. Maximum dew point of 56 at 7am. 🏖️ Okay, maybe not beach weather. Breezy, with a south wind 13 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 34 mph. Careful don’t get a speeding ticket 🎫 with that wind 🍃. Thank you internet advertisers, I don’t speed or even motor all that often. Motoring is like smoking cigarettes in my books. 🇸🇱 Kind of fun but really bad for your health. But an occasional toke, is probably not going to kill you despite the warnings of health departments that are so contemptibly managing the COVID. Cue that song about the Cement Octopus. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms. It looks like it won’t be a big deal. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies. The high last year was 60 degrees. I remember doing remote work from the backyard last year. The record high of 74 was set in 1986. 6.1 inches of snow fell back in 1899.❄

Solar noon 🌞 is at 1:02 pm with sun having an altitude of 49.7° from the due south horizon (-21.1° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 5.1 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 6:38 pm with the sun in the west (268°). 📸 The sunset is in the west (274°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 7:15 pm after setting for 2 minutes and 54 seconds with dusk around 7:42 pm, which is one minute and 9 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At dusk you’ll see the Full 🌝 Moon in the east-southeast (103°) at an altitude of 30° from the horizon, 232,711 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 8:16 pm. At sunset, look for partly cloudy skies 🌃 and temperatures around 58 degrees. Breezy, 25 mph breeze ⛅ from the west with gusts up to 46mph. Today will have 12 hours and 27 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 54 seconds over yesterday.

Yesterday was nice with the mild weather working down at the library. Maybe a bit bright with the sun but the weather was nice and warm. I’m not totally sure how it will be with the wind whipping around, and I don’t know if I will go until after my Friday meeting, as Zoom sometimes cuts out on my laptop, but I really get tired of being home all the time, and my wooden chair on paint bench kind of sucks for sitting at all day for work. After work yesterday, I walked down to the park with the book I’m reading on goat farming and sat on down there to dusk. I just got so tired of being home all the time.

Tonight will be mostly cloudy 🌥, with a low of 38 degrees at 6am. Eight degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around April 16th. Breezy, with a northwest wind 20 to 25 mph decreasing to 13 to 18 mph after midnight. Winds could gust as high as 50 mph. In 2020, we had cloudy skies in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 41 degrees. The record low of 11 occurred back in 1975.

Tomorrow will be mostly sunny 🌞, with a high of 56 degrees at 4pm. Seven degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around April 10th. Northwest wind 8 to 13 mph, with gusts as high as 23 mph. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies. The high last year was 60 degrees. The record high of 78 was set in 1998. 6.7 inches of snow fell back in 1959.❄ I am thinking tomorrow I will probably go for a walk at Partridge Run on some of the roads in back, which shouldn’t be so ice and snow covered at this point.

Looking ahead to Sunday, showers, mainly after 7am. High near 55. South wind 11 to 14 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New precipitation amounts between a half and three quarters of an inch possible. What I will say is rain is good in the sense that things are pretty dry due to the lack of late winter snow, which keeps the fire risk down. I think that will be a boring stay at home day, but maybe I’ll finish that book I’ve been reading about goat farming. Typical average high for the weekend is 49 degrees.

I am thinking about next Thursday heading up to the Adirondacks for trout fishing, remote work then camping the long weekend up north. But nothing is set in stone. The water is probably still made cold up north and they probably aren’t biting but I kind of want to camp up in the remote wilderness so I can set up a target and shoot guns. This weekend with all the news has me thinking about how fun plinking really is. Not sure if I can do the same if I were to camp in Central New York where things are closer together. But I might do a trip out to Stoney Pond or maybe even the Finger Lakes come mid-month, depending on the weather and how many days I can get off or how much remote work I can do. The main thing I really need is a cellphone signal. Sometimes that’s even easier then love, with so many places having cell service these days. I do need to do something about that replacement laptop battery that didn’t really work out.

As previously noted, next Friday is Good Friday ✝️ when the sun will be setting at 7:22 pm with dusk at 7:51 pm. On that day in 2020, we had rain showers, mostly cloudy and temperatures between 57 and 38 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 52 degrees. We hit a record high of 77 back in 2010.