Happy Frigid Weekend! Sunny and 33 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☀ Breezy, 17 mph breeze from the west-northwest 🌬 . The current wind chill is 21. It feels pretty bitterly cold waiting out for the bus with that wind. Going to a cold weekend, especially Saturday. I’d love to go camping but when I’m facing a stiff March breeze.

The sun will set at 7:03 pm with dusk around 7:31 pm, which is one minute and 10 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At sunset, look for partly clear skies and 31 degrees. The wind chill around sunset will be 20. ☃ Breezy, 16 mph breeze ⛅ from the west-northwest.

After I get home, I think I will probably have a quick dinner then retire to bed. 💤It’s been a long week, I’m ready for a good nap. Maybe I’ll work on some soldering projects later, especially if those damn LEDS I ordered from China a month ago finally arrived. I have a $4 coupon from AliExpress, and I’m thinking of ordering some boost converters for projects I’m building. I’m thinking if I boost the 5 volt USB power to like 12 volts, I could run sets of 4 white LEDs in series without even using a resistor with less soldering to boot. If you wire leds in such a way that the total forward voltage drop matches the total voltage no resistor is required.

Tonight will be partly cloudy ☁, with a low of 23 degrees at 6am. Three degrees below normal. Maximum wind chill around 18 at 9pm; Northwest wind 9 to 15 mph. In 2017, we had mostly clear skies. It got down to 16 degrees. The record low of -1 occurred back in 1916.

Tonight will have a New Moon The Blue Moon 🌝 is in 2 weeks. The sun will rise at 7:03 am with the first light at 6:35 am, which is one minute and 45 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌄 Tonight will have 11 hours and 58 minutes of darkness, a decrease of 2 minutes and 54 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will be cold and sunny 🌞, with a high of 33 degrees at 3pm. 12 degrees below normal. Northwest wind 10 to 16 mph. That wind will make it feel pretty miserable. A year ago, we had partly cloudy skies. The high last year was 40 degrees. The record high of 75 was set in 1990. 4.1 inches of snow fell back in 1982.❄

Looking ahead to Sunday, not much of an improvement. Bitterly cold for March but sunny🌞, with a high near 34. Northwest wind 5 to 11 mph. Typical average high for the weekend is 45 degrees.

So I am not going camping this weekend. ⛺ Just too cold. Plus I have all those bottles and cans in the back of my truck that I need to take to the transfer station eventually before camping season.

Before you know it, nicer weather will return. 🌱I suspect by April there will be weekends when I’m heading up to the wilderness to camp. Maybe not far back in the backcountry because of mud season but far enough back to have a good time. 😎 I’m thinking at this point to save time, I may start taking Exit 23 onto the Thruway to get to Schenectady or Amsterdam on my way to the Adirondacks🌄 as spending an extra 50 cents for less traffic headaches is worth it. 💵 I am always looking for a way to save a buck but sometimes it’s not worth it, even though my budget is always so tight, as I save for a better tomorrow.

In four weeks on April 13 the sun will be setting at 7:35 pm,🌄 which is 32 minutes and 5 seconds later then today. In 2017 on that day, we had partly cloudy skies and temperatures between 60 and 40 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 57 and 37 degrees. The record high of 87 degrees was set back in 1977.

Looking ahead, Good Friday ✝ is in 2 weeks, Arbor Day 🌳 is in 6 weeks, 8 PM Sunset 🌇 is in 7 weeks, Average High is 70 🐮 is in 2 months, Memorial Day Weekend Starts 🏕 is in 10 weeks, Average High is 80 🏖 is in 14 weeks and Buy Nothing Day 🛍 is in 36 weeks.

🇺🇸🦅Only 10 weeks remain until the start of Memorial Day Weekend!🦅🇺🇸