Good morning! What day is it? Farmers Market Day, of course. I’m really hoping they’ll have apples 🍏. Mostly cloudy and 34 degrees for the morning walk 🚶 in the land of Delmaritian. ☁ There is a northwest breeze at 10 mph. 🍃. There is a inch of snow on the ground. ☃ ️Temperatures will drop below freezing at around 9 pm. ☃️

Been trying to get an earlier start for the morning walk 🚶 just because it means less smoldering cars in front of High School 🚸 to breathe the toxic emissions and crazied motorists 🏎 around the High School. A quite dark morning with the clouds but going to clear later. Mild, I like that fact. I’m going to try to catch the earlier bus 🚍 downtown as I’m up earlier.

With the oranges 🍊 and bananas 🍌my fruit bowl looks nice at work. Provides good snacking throughout the day. 🍎 Now I just need to add apples.

Today will be mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming sunny ☁ 👉 ☀ , with a high of 40 degrees at 2pm. Six degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around February 28th. Kind of the opposite of yesterday. Northwest wind 10 to 15 mph. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies. The high last year was 23 degrees. The record high of 52 was set in 1925. 14.0 inches of snow fell back in 1895.❄

Probably going to have to use that brass lamp on my desk 🛋️ but whatever. One more session day dressed up and taking the local to work 🚍 and then it’s back to the express. Tomorrow I might want to get my steps in early 👣 as it’s going to rain ☔ again in the evening.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:10 pm with sun having an altitude of 32.3° from the due south horizon (-38.5° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 9.5 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 4:38 pm with the sun in the west-southwest (243°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-southwest (250°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 5:18 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 5 seconds with dusk around 5:47 pm, which is one minute and 19 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 The best time to look at the stars is after 6:21 pm. At sunset, look for mostly clear skies 🌄 and temperatures around 38 degrees. There will be a northwest breeze at 10 mph. Tomorrow will have 10 hours and 21 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 33 seconds over today.

I didn’t listen to the State of the Union last night. 🎤 I get tired of all that politician crap and my sleep 😴 is valuable if I want to produce best results at work tomorrow. From listening to NPR this morning I don’t think I missed much. Lex Fridman podcast was more interesting interviewing that pschyatrist.

Tonight will have increasing clouds ☁, with a low of 29 degrees at 5am. 13 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around March 24th. North wind around 6 mph becoming calm in the evening. In 2022, we had mostly clear skies in the evening, which became snow by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 8 degrees. The record low of -20 occurred back in 1934.

A picture perfect weekend on tap. 😎 Saturday, mostly sunny, with a high near 38. Sunday, sunny, with a high near 42. Typical average high for the weekend is 35 degrees. What are the odds of that? Not going to be any snow around or at least not a lot. Muddy though.

Probably just a stay at home 🏡 weekend, Saturday walking 🚶 out to Five Rivers and Sunday Bennett Hill, maybe the Town Park 🏞 and out to see the folks. 🍲

Looking ahead, there are 3 weeks until March 🌨 when the sun will be setting at 5:45 pm with dusk at 6:12 pm. There is hope for spring but we all know that cold springs usually follow warm winters. On that day in 2022, we had mostly cloudy, snow showers and temperatures between 41 and 17 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 40 degrees. We hit a record high of 66 back in 2017.