Good morning! Happy Tuesday from back in the cesspool. New York let’s go chase that money. Partly sunny and 21 degrees in Delmar for the morning walk 🚶 on this third week of January after the long weekend, which seemed too short. Calm wind. Things will start to thaw out at around 11 am. 🌡️And then more rain this evening. I will pack my umbrella for the evening commute.

It’s back to work after the long weekend. 🧑🏻‍💼 Already got paid for the weeks gone by. Memories of the weekend come and gone loom large. Despite the thermostat set at fifty in my apartment I was much too warm with the heat. ♨ I felt like a husky brought inside in the freezing weather. I’m sure I’ll feel hot all day in the office 🏢 and I’ll have my fan running.

Today will have a chance of rain, mainly after 2pm. Increasing clouds 🌦️, with a high of 37 degrees at 3pm. Five degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around February 18th. Light and variable wind becoming southeast around 5 mph. Chance of precipitation is 50%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. A year ago, we had light snow in the morning, remaining cloudy in the afternoon. The high last year was 36 degrees. The record high of 62 was set in 1889. 10.9 inches of snow fell back in 1994.❄

Got paid this morning 💸 before I could even get out of bed and look 🛏 at the NY Post cover on the wall from Dan Halloran and the ducking money and his hair brained scheme to sell the New York City mayor-ship. If you are planning on putting a knife 🗡 though some ones back make sure you actually will be successful at killing them. Usually it’s the dumb criminals that get caught. Smart ones amend the law ⚖ so their conduct is lawful.

Running a bit late on my morning walk so I had to walk past the smoking cars 🚙 past the high school 🚸 but whatever. I am taking the local 🚍 to work so I have a bit of extra time to iron my shirt, take a shower 🚿 and pack a lunch. 🥪 I’m not going to pack a dinner, I’m hopeful it won’t be too late of a night. But I don’t care, once I get home 🏡 if it’s not raining I’ll do my evening walk 🚶 and then head to bed after dinner.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:06 pm with sun having an altitude of 26.6° from the due south horizon (-44.2° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 12 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 4:06 pm with the sun in the southwest (235°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-southwest (242°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 4:49 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 18 seconds with dusk around 5:20 pm, which is one minute and 12 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 The best time to look at the stars is after 5:55 pm. At sunset, look for rain 🌧 and temperatures around 36 degrees. There will be a calm wind. Tomorrow will have 9 hours and 32 minutes of daytime, an increase of one minute and 46 seconds over today.

It just back to the grind, 🚍 🏢 🚍 and Madison County was so nice but I know I’m working for a better future 🔮. I was fortunate enough to have a job that I could work in Madison County for a brief period of time ⏳ but those days came and went so quickly, just as did Dr. King’s 👑 weekend. But so be it. Not the other side of the world, I could go back there at some point in the spring. 🌷 I’m thinking though for President’s Weekend I might be back at Rennselaerville State Forest. That is five weeks off though. I can’t complain too much, just a four day week and it will be the weekend before you know it.

Tonight will have a chance of rain before 2am, then a chance of rain and snow. Cloudy 🌧, with a low of 33 degrees at 6am. 18 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around April 5th. South wind 3 to 5 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. Little or no snow accumulation expected. In 2022, we had cloudy skies in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 22 degrees. The record low of -19 occurred back in 1957.

Fixed the chain 🔗 on my wallet. I find old USB cables work good for tying my wallet to my belt and usually last a year or two. Now that’s real recycling ♻ and means that I don’t loose my wallet. 🤔

Continued mild for the weekend though Sunday will be the best day. ☀ Saturday, mostly cloudy, with a high near 36. Sunday, partly sunny, with a high near 40. Probably cold enough that things will be frozen on Bennett Hill though for hiking I’m thinking. Typical average high for the weekend is 32 degrees. The coldest time of the year isn’t so cold.

Looking ahead, there are 4 weeks until Valentines Day ❤️ when the sun will be setting at 5:27 pm with dusk at 5:54 pm. Or as I like to call it, Valente’s Day, mostly because I’m not good at spelling. On that day in 2022, we had mostly cloudy, snow showers and temperatures between 28 and 15 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 36 degrees. We hit a record high of 63 back in 1946.