Good morning! Clouds after the rain and 37 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☔ There is a south-southeast breeze at 6 mph. 🍃. There are 6 inches of snow on the ground. ☃ ️Temperatures will drop below freezing at around 11 pm. ☃️

It was raining ☔ out at six o’clock so I’m taking the earlier express bus 🚍 down from the Park and Ride and will walk 🚶 inside the Concourse before work. It looks like Saturday is going to be the challenging day to get in my steps especially if it rains most of the day rather than snow. I’ll do my best to keep up my progress though.

Today will rain likely, mainly before 10am. Mostly cloudy ⛅ , with a high of 46 degrees at 1pm. Six degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around March 18th. South wind 5 to 10 mph becoming northwest 13 to 18 mph in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 28 mph. So much for it being a bitterly cold weekend. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies. The high last year was 24 degrees. The record high of 65 was set in 1991. 11.9 inches of snow fell back in 2018.❄

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:09 pm with sun having an altitude of 40.1° from the due south horizon (-30.7° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 7.1 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 5:08 pm with the sun in the west-southwest (255°). 📸

Walking 🚶 inside the the Plaza is fine but I’m hoping for some more sun ☀ by afternoon so I can walk outside maybe up to Washington Park 🏞 and get some fresh air. I probably could have walked outside this morning 🌅 but it’s always cold and windy 🌬️ on the Plaza whd this morning is just damp from the recent rain.

The sunset is in the west (261°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 5:46 pm after setting for 2 minutes and 56 seconds with dusk around 6:14 pm, which is one minute and 13 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At dusk you’ll see the Waxing Gibbous 🌔 Moon in the east-southeast (104°) at an altitude of 54° from the horizon, 251,768 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 6:47 pm. At sunset, look for partly cloudy skies 🌃 and temperatures around 41 degrees. Breezy, 20 mph breeze ⛅ from the west-northwest. Today will have 11 hours and 19 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 50 seconds over yesterday.

Yesterday was pretty much normal, 🤷‍♂️ quiet for a while at work then busy. I’m continuing to read 📖 and study up on machine learning. It’s in some ways a lot more boring 💤 than you might think but I’m leaning some interesting techniques for classifying data. I did enjoy the sun streaming into my office though in the morning. That won’t be the case today unfortunately.

Tonight will be partly cloudy 🌤, with a low of 25 degrees at 6am. Three degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around March 11th. Blustery, with a northwest wind 10 to 20 mph. In 2022, we had cloudy skies. It got down to 19 degrees. The record low of -10 occurred back in 1950.

Today in 1989, Twelve European Community nations agree to ban the production of all chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) 💢 by the end of the century. We’ve moved through a few generations of refrigerants now, with low global warming potential refrigerants the future. Believe it or not back in the day, CFCs were not regularly captured upon disposal, leaking the refrigerants into the atmosphere.

Right now, a split verdict on the weekend. 😕 Saturday, snow before 10am, then snow showers, possibly mixed with rain between 10am and 1pm, then rain showers likely after 1pm. High near 38. East wind 6 to 11 mph becoming north in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New precipitation amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible. Sunday, partly sunny, with a high near 38. Typical average high for the weekend is 41 degrees.

Looking ahead, there are 8 weeks until Arbor Day 🌳 when the sun will be setting at 7:52 pm with dusk at 8:20 pm (Daylight Savings Time). Often I’m up in the Adirondacks that weekend but I’m thinking more Cazenovia for Easter Weekend. On that day in 2022, we had partly cloudy, rain showers and temperatures between 63 and 36 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 65 degrees. We hit a record high of 91 back in 1962.