I’m up early and bussing it to work doing laps walking on the Concourse. Been a while since I’ve been downtown but I figure it’s a good chance to get in some steps before work.

Good morning! What day is it? Hump Day, of course. Cloudy ☁️ and 38 degrees in Delmar, NY. There is a south-southeast breeze at 8 mph. 🍃. There are 2 inches of snow on the ground. ☃ ️Temperatures will drop below freezing at Saturday around 6 am. ☃️ I can keep the heat off for now, didn’t even need the electric blanket last night.

Pancakes with carrots, oatmeal banana and cinnamon topped with mango and blueberries with real maple syrup, 🥞 just waiting for the blood sugar crash. 😋 Probably should have had more protein with breakfast besides the egg in the batter, though carrot, whole wheat flour and oatmeal should slow the absorption of the sugar.

Today will have showers, mainly after 10am. 🌦 High of 49 degrees at 4pm. Typical for today. South wind 7 to 9 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible. A year ago, we had partly cloudy skies in the morning, remaining cloudy in the afternoon. The high last year was 52 degrees. The record high of 78 was set in 1998. 6.7 inches of snow fell back in 1959.❄

Solar noon 🌞 is at 1:01 pm with sun having an altitude of 50.2° from the due south horizon (-20.6° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 5 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 6:39 pm with the sun in the west (269°). 📸 The sunset is in the west (275°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 7:16 pm after setting for 2 minutes and 54 seconds with dusk around 7:44 pm, which is one minute and 8 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 The best time to look at the stars is after 8:18 pm. At sunset, look for rain 🌧 and temperatures around 48 degrees. There will be a south-southeast breeze at 7 mph. Tomorrow will have 12 hours and 36 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 54 seconds over today.

Yesterday for dinner was reheated ham soup 🍲 from the parents house and homemade bread 🍞 which was good with some shredded apple 🍏 and shredded oatmeal with cinnamon for dessert. 😋 I decided to do a bike ride 🚲 out along Meads Lane to see the cows 🐮 and get a bit more exercise as I knew I wouldn’t be riding to work today. 😔 I did ride both ways yesterday to work but rain today. ☔ Maybe I’m just making excuses and making the bus company rich.

Tonight will have a chance of showers. Cloudy 🌧, with a low of 40 degrees at 4am. 10 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around April 22nd. South wind around 6 mph becoming light and variable. Chance of precipitation is 40%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. In 2023, we had light rain in the evening, which became cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 33 degrees. The record low of 85 occurred back in 1945.

A picture perfect weekend on tap. 😎 Good Friday, mostly sunny, with a high near 49. Saturday, mostly sunny, with a high near 50. Breezy. Easter Sunday, partly sunny, with a high near 51. Typical average high for the weekend is 51 degrees.

I still haven’t heard about Good Friday ✝️ but I am inclined to thst believe that I will have it off but it hasn’t been made official yet probably because of the state budget crap. These days I’m glad I’m no longer working Capitol Hill. 🏢 I will probably pack tonight, and I’m hoping to use my get out of jail early card for Thursday but who knows. I’d kind of like to get bacon 🥓 on the way to the ADKs from For the Love of Bacon but they close at 5 pm, plus I want to get up north fairly early not just to crack open a beer 🍻 but because it takes more time to set up camp ⛺ in the snow. The bacon place is open at 7 am on Good Friday so I could do the bacon thing on Friday and go up early as an alternative assuming that I don’t know about Good Friday until tomorrow.

As previously noted, there are 2 weeks until 8 PM Dusk 🌆 when the sun will be setting at 7:33 pm. On that day in 2023, we had sunny skies and temperatures between 67 and 30 degrees. That works for me. Typically, the high temperature is 57 degrees. We hit a record high of 86 back in 1922.