Good evening! Light to moderate rain and 32 degrees in Delmar, NY.💦 There is a east-southeast breeze at 15 mph. 🍃.

Right now it’s not really freezing here on the roads but who knows through the night. Driving home from the folks house after Sunday dinner, it dropped to 30 on Big Red’s DIC but the roads weren’t icy despite the light rain that was coming down. 🚗

Tonight will have rain and possibly freezing rain. ☔ Low of 32 degrees at 10pm. Six degrees below normal. East wind 13 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. Total nighttime ice accumulation of less than a 1/10th of an inch possible. In 2017, we had mostly cloudy skies with some clearing in the early hours of the next day. It got down to 56 degrees. The record low of 22 occurred back in 1981.

Tonight is the New Moon. The moon will rise at 6:54 am. The First Quarter Moon is on Saturday night with a chance of showers then chance of rain/snow. The Pink Moon 🌝 is on Saturday, April 28th. The sun will rise at 6:12 am with the first light at 5:43 am, which is one minute and 37 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌄 Tonight will have 10 hours and 32 minutes of darkness, a decrease of 2 minutes and 44 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will rain and possibly a thunderstorm. ☔ High of 50 degrees at 5pm. Nine degrees below normal. Breezy, with an east wind 21 to 24 mph, with gusts as high as 41 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New rainfall amounts between three quarters and one inch possible. A year ago, we had partly cloudy skies. The high last year was 87 degrees. The record high of 91 was set in 2012. 5.3 inches of snow fell back in 1983.❄

Looking ahead, next weekend may be somewhat cool with 7 degrees below normal but otherwise sunny. 😀 Next Saturday, mostly sunny, with a high near 53. Next Sunday, mostly sunny, with a high near 56. Cool but still I’ll take it. We wouldn’t complain about weather like that in mid March. Typical average high for the weekend is 61 degrees.

Finished wiring up and testing the new control board for my VMS display for at home.💻 It works as far as I can tell although I have yet to test it with a display module but all the connections are made.

The GPS logger is working fairly well based on the logs produced, although on some days it has trouble getting a GPS signal inside my truck. But other than that it’s quietly logging away at my various trips. 📜 It will be great for capturing the routes I take on summer road trips.

Sunday dinner is was pretty good. Mom made bean soup and hard rolls.🍛 Good stuff. I left fairly early as I don’t like driving after dark on rural roads and I was worried about the ice on the road.

Continuing to read that book about off grid and energy efficient living. A lot of things I didn’t think much about. 🔋I camp a lot and know quite a bit about low voltage power but I’m still learning a lot. Never knew how important insulation, especially vapor barriers are to a warm house. As recently as 50 years ago, insulation and heat loss in buildings was poorly understood by most people. A lot of energy goes into heating and even if you heat with wood you get off your own land you really don’t want to be wasting it. 🔥

In four weeks on May 13 the sun will be setting at 8:09 pm,🌄 which is 31 minutes and 18 seconds later then tonight. In 2017 on that day, we had rain, mist, cloudy skies and temperatures between 55 and 47 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 69 and 46 degrees. The record high of 86 degrees was set back in 2004.

Looking ahead, Mothers Day 👩‍ is in 4 weeks, Fathers Day 👨 is in 9 weeks, Daylight Savings Time Ends 🛥️ is in 29 weeks, Veterans Day (Sunday) 🇺🇸 is in 30 weeks and First Sunday of Advent ✝️ is in 33 weeks.

🇺🇸🦅Only 39 days remain until the start of Memorial Day Weekend!🦅🇺🇸