Good morning! Happy Palm Sunday 🌴 Worm Moon 🌕 ! There was a pretty nice full moon last night. Next Sunday is Easter 🐰 . Rain and 45 degrees at the Albany County Rail Trail heading out to Voorheesville. ☁️ No rain yet but it’s coming. ☔ There is a south-southeast breeze at 13 mph. 🍃. Temperatures will remain mild before dropping below freezing at Tuesday around 1 am. ☃️

It’s a cloudy and damp morning ☁️but I’m out walking 🚶🏻the rail trail 🚂 before the rain comes. I figure come the afternoon it will be pretty wet.

Today will have showers and possibly a thunderstorm. 🌦 High of 55 degrees at 3pm. Five degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around April 7th. Maximum dew point of 41 at 9am. 🏖️ Southeast wind 13 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 26 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible. A year ago, we had partly cloudy skies in the morning, which became light rain by afternoon. The high last year was 51 degrees. The record high of 85 was set in 1945. 14.2 inches of snow fell back in 1932.❄

Solar noon 🌞 is at 1:01 pm with sun having an altitude of 50.5° from the due south horizon (-20.3° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 4.9 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 6:40 pm with the sun in the west (269°). 📸 The sunset is in the west (275°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 7:17 pm after setting for 2 minutes and 55 seconds with dusk around 7:45 pm, which is one minute and 9 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At dusk you’ll see the Full 🌝 Moon in the east (95°) at an altitude of 5° from the horizon, 228,443 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 8:19 pm. At sunset, look for rain 🌧 and thunderstorms 🌩 and temperatures around 51 degrees. There will be a west-southwest breeze at 9 mph. Today will have 12 hours and 33 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 54 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will rain showers likely before 5am, then a slight chance of rain and snow showers. Cloudy, then gradually becoming partly cloudy 🌧, with a low of 35 degrees at 6am. Four degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around April 8th. Breezy, with a west wind 10 to 15 mph increasing to 19 to 24 mph after midnight. Winds could gust as high as 45 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. Little or no snow accumulation expected. In 2020, we had light rain in the evening, which became partly cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 43 degrees. The record low of 0 occurred back in 1923.

As previously noted, next Sunday is Easter 🐰 when the sun will be setting at 7:25 pm with dusk at 7:53 pm. On that day in 2020, we had mostly cloudy, rain showers and temperatures between 63 and 46 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 53 degrees. We hit a record high of 79 back in 1950.