Good morning! Partly cloudy and 15 degrees in Delmar. ⛅ There is a south breeze at 3 mph. 🍃. The current wind chill is 5. There is a inch of snow on the ground. ☃ ️Things will start to thaw out at Thursday around 10 am. 🌡️ And then maybe head up into the fifties?

Today will be partly sunny 🌞, with a high of 17 degrees at 4pm. 19 degrees below normal. Maximum wind chill around -4 at 9am; South wind around 9 mph, with gusts as high as 21 mph. A year ago, we had cloudy skies. The high last year was 29 degrees. The record high of 72 was set in 2015. 13.0 inches of snow fell back in 1966.❄

Going to be a cold day today. ⛄ See what happens when you vote for a President who said they’d end global warming. 🌎 Fortunately I think I voted for whoever the crazy libertarian was in 2020. Heck in 2015, on Christmas Day I hiked at Glimmerglass State Park and then camped at the upper camp at Brookfield State Forest. Yes, there was that little snow and it was that mild, that I could drive up there with no issues.

I am considering hiking out to Five Rivers today. 🐦 I will bring my microspikes. It’s going to be a cold day, but I can bundle up and I really should get my steps in, 👣 I’ve fallen so far behind in recent weeks. The snow is frozen hard, and is compacted so I don’t think I’ll need my skis at this point, which makes it easier, especially if I don’t want to drive. I do need to get razors to shave, 🧔 so I might end up running to the store later on, though I’m not sure they may close early on Christmas Eve.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 11:56 am with sun having an altitude of 24° from the due south horizon (-46.9° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 13.5 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 3:41 pm with the sun in the southwest (230°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-southwest (238°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 4:27 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 26 seconds with dusk around 4:58 pm, which is 35 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇

At dusk you’ll see the Waxing Crescent 🌒 Moon in the southwest (226°) at an altitude of 5° from the horizon, 226,339 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 5:35 pm. At sunset, look for partly cloudy skies 🌃 and temperatures around 16 degrees. The wind chill around sunset will be 4. ☃️ There will be a south-southwest breeze at 9 mph. Today will have 9 hours and 6 minutes of daytime, an increase of 10 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will be partly cloudy 🌤, with a low of 7 degrees at 6am. 13 degrees below normal. Maximum wind chill around 4 at 6pm; South wind around 9 mph. In 2021, we had cloudy skies in the evening, which became rain by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 28 degrees. The record low of -22 occurred back in 1969.