Next Time – Saturday March 19

Today’s sunrise was at 6:58 am. The next time the sun will rise later then today 🌄 is in 203 days on Saturday, October 8.

The average high for today is 46 degrees. 🌡 The next time it will be on average cooler then today is in 251 days on Friday, November 25 when the average temperature will be 45 degrees.

The highest point for the sun today will be 46.9° from the horizon at 1:04 pm. 🌞 The next time the sun will be lower in the sky mid-day is in 190 days on Sunday, September 25.

Today has 12 hours and 16 minutes of daylight. ⏳ The next time the day will be shorter then today is in 189 days on Saturday, September 24.

Today’s sunset will be at 7:07 pm. The next time the sun will set earlier then today 🌆 is in 181 days on Friday, September 16.

The average low for today is 27 degrees. 🌡 The next night it will be on average cooler then tonight is in 259 days on Saturday, December 3 when the average temperature will be 26 degrees.

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Today’s Almanac for Saturday March 19

Today’s Almanac

Night before dawn is 6 hours and 31 minutes,
Dawn starts at 6:31 am and runs for 26 minutes,
Sunrise is at 6:58 am which is 5 hours and 1 minutes before noon,
High noon, the transit of the sun, is at 1:03 pm,
From twelve noon to the sunset at 7:07 pm is 7 hours and 7 minutes,
Dusk lasts for 33 minutes concluding at 7:34 pm,
Leaving 4 hours and 25 minutes until midnight.

Weather Update – March 19, 2022

Looks like winter will go as it came ☁️

Cloudy, damp and mild. Maybe about 15 degrees warmer then the first day of winter — things are trending milder then expected earlier on — but hardly a nice late spring day. 🌺 At least no heat required today, and maybe a few more nights sleeping with the windows open. Even with cooler weather expected, especially in the nights by mid-week, it seems like much of the coming week will feel like early April rather then mid-to-late May. Spring is Sunday.

Today.
Feels like …
April 15th.

Scattered Showers

Scattered showers, mainly before 9am. Cloudy.

South wind 8 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.

and

59 degrees , 7:07
sunset.
Tonight.
Feels like …
May 10th.

Showers is likely then Chance of Showers

Showers and thunderstorms likely before midnight, then a chance of showers between midnight and 2am. Cloudy, then gradually becoming partly cloudy.

Southeast wind 5 to 10 mph becoming light east in the evening. Chance of precipitation is 70%. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.

and

46 degrees , 6:56
sunrise.
Sunday.
Feels like …
April 4th.

Partly Sunny then Chance of Showers

A chance of showers, mainly after 3pm. Increasing clouds.

Light and variable wind becoming west 6 to 11 mph in the morning. Winds could gust as high as 21 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.

and

53 degrees , 7:08
sunset.
Sunday Night.
Feels like …
April 9th.

Chance of Showers then Partly Cloudy

A chance of showers, mainly before 7pm. Mostly cloudy.

Northwest wind 8 to 16 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.

and

34 degrees , 6:54
sunrise.
Monday.
Feels like …
April 4th.

Mostly Sunny

Mostly sunny.

West wind 8 to 16 mph.

and

53 degrees , 7:10
sunset.
Monday Night.
Feels like …
April 1st.

Mostly Cloudy

Mostly cloudy.

 

and

31 degrees , 6:53
sunrise.
Tuesday.
Feels like …
March 26th.

Mostly Sunny

Mostly sunny.

 

and

49 degrees , 7:11
sunset.
Tuesday Night.
Feels like …
March 29th.

Mostly Cloudy

Mostly cloudy.

 

and

30 degrees , 6:51
sunrise.
Wednesday.
Feels like …
March 24th.

Partly Sunny then Chance of Rain

A chance of rain after 2pm. Mostly cloudy.

Chance of precipitation is 40%.

and

48 degrees , 7:12
sunset.
Wednesday Night.
Feels like …
April 11th.

Rain is likely

Rain likely, mainly after 8pm. Cloudy.

Chance of precipitation is 70%.

and

35 degrees , 6:49
sunrise.
Thursday.
Feels like …
April 1st.

Rain is likely

Rain likely. Cloudy.

Chance of precipitation is 70%.

and

52 degrees , 7:13
sunset.
Thursday Night.
Feels like …
April 19th.

Chance of Showers

A chance of showers. Mostly cloudy.

Chance of precipitation is 50%.

and

38 degrees , 6:47
sunrise.
Friday.
Feels like …
April 1st.

Chance of Showers

A chance of showers. Partly sunny.

Chance of precipitation is 30%.

and

52 degrees , 7:14
sunset.

Daily Update – March 19, 2022

Good morning! Final Day of Winter ⛄

Good ridden winter, although I’m well aware of the 8-14 day outlook that suggests the mild weather of late isn’t expected to last into late March and early April.

🌹🌻🌼Only 1 day remains until the first day of calendar spring!🌹🌻🌼

Spring begins at 11:33 AM tomorrow. 🌷 Hopefully we will have sun, although it looks more like will be mostly cloudy to start the spring month. At least not excessively dry.

Cloudy and 45 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☁️ There is a south breeze at 8 mph. 🍃. Temperatures will drop below freezing at Tuesday around 6 am. ☃️

Today looks like it will be kind of wet and gray day. ☔ Not as much rain as I expected, that will be good if I decide to go to the library later on. 📚 I might walk out to Five Rivers some point today, depends on how much rain we get but I don’t want to get stuck in a rain storm walking back home. 🐸 Or I might wait until Sunday to go out to Five Rivers.

I am thinking about some coding projects 👨‍💻 and trying to learn about new map-making techniques. Also been thinking about getting the soldering iron out and rebuilding the GPS-logger for my truck before the summer camping season, so I can have maps and logs of my summer road trips. 🏕 Although, maybe those trips will be somewhat abridged with the high prices of gasoline, ⛽ but ultimately you have to live. For now, until it gets nicer, I am pretty much staying closer to home, walking places or taking the bus.

The past few days I’ve gotten in over 15,000 steps a day, 🚶‍♀️ although with the weather today, I doubt I’ll be able to continue that trend. But it seems like with the warmer weather, it will be easier to get more steps in, especially on non-session days when I can walk before work, and then at lunch time.

Earlier this morning stumbling around, I got caught in the window shade cord, 🔳 and managed to fall on my knee, banging it up, and leaving myself kind of sore with a broken window shade. I am going to see if I can either glue the window-shade later on or maybe I can narrow the brackets. I still think I can get more use out of it. 🔧 I was annoyed that another thing is broken in my life. The good news though is that my repair to the trash can is holding up and I’m hopeful the JD Weld I put on my exercise bike will cure good 🚲 — I’m waiting to ride it for a few more days to get a good solid cure. Since that pedal broke on the bicycle I haven’t been riding it much over the winter, but I used to like doing that especially while watching Youtube videos I had downloaded. 📽

I was reading the town newsletter, and see now I have to have the cans separated from the plastic and glass for recycling. 🥫 What a freaking pain. ♻️ Fees have gone up to the point for recycling plastic and glass, it hardly saves money compared to putting them in a black garbage bag and sending them to the Rapp Road Landfill. $2 a bag for recycling glass and plastic separated out, versus $3 a bag mixed in with the garbage. 💸  Paper is $2 surcharge per car too. 📃 I guess the truth recycling really is becoming revealed as a valueless scam. ❗ If you want less garbage, you just got to buy less garbage, you can kind of forget about recycling these days. 🔥 Fire works too, but it’s kind of illegal, toxic and smells bad if you don’t have a hot enough fire. Need to move out to the open country, where nobody cares. 🐮 Recycling has become so damn hard lately with commodities prices so low. Even at work, nobody has recycling bins any more — you want to recycle, you have to haul your paper trash to a central trash can on each floor.