Good morning! Happy Friday! Three weeks until we mourn the loss of the great voice of organizer of the working man and carpenter on Good Friday ✝️. Gray skies,☁ tired looking snow, Nights in White Satin on the radio and 29 degrees in Delmar, NY as I take the bus downtown. There is a south-southwest breeze at 7 mph. 🍃. The current wind chill is 17. Things will start to thaw out at around 10 am. 🌡️

🌹🌻🌼Only 11 days remain until the first day of calendar spring!🌹🌻🌼

Today will be scattered snow showers. Cloudy ☁ , with a high of 38 degrees at 1pm. Three degrees below normal. Southwest wind 7 to 17 mph becoming west in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 50%. Total daytime snow accumulation of less than one inch possible. A year ago, we had mostly cloudy skies with some clearing in the afternoon. The high last year was 46 degrees. The record high of 81 was set in 2016. 6.9 inches of snow fell back in 1961.❄

The sun will set at 5:55 pm with dusk around 6:23 pm, which is one minute and 12 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At sunset, look for clouds☁ and 37 degrees. Not a real pretty sunset. Breezy, 17 mph breeze from the west-northwest. Today will have 11 hours and 39 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 54 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will have isolated snow showers. Mostly cloudy ❄ , with a low of 27 degrees at 6am. Three degrees above normal. West wind 8 to 16 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%. In 2017, we had mostly cloudy skies. It got down to 15 degrees. The record low of 0 occurred back in 1996. We are almost past the very cold time of the year.

Today in 1959, Barbie doll makes its debut 🙅at the American International Toy Fair in New York. Often seen a symbol of sexism, this doll has been very popular with children over the decades until the dog chews off the legs and the carcass ends up in the burn barrel.

As previously noted, there are 3 weeks until Good Friday ✝️ when the sun will be setting at 7:19 pm with dusk at 7:48 pm (Daylight Savings Time). For Jesus was a working man and a hero you will hear. Or so Phil Ochs On that day in 2017, we had snow, mostly cloudy skies and temperatures between 48 and 26 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 51 degrees. We hit a record high of 86 back in 1986.