Good morning! Another beautiful Thursday in Trump’s America. Mostly sunny 🌞 and 61 degrees in Delmar, NY. There is a south breeze at 11 mph. 🍃 with gusts up to 21 mph 💨💨💨. The dew point is 48 degrees. No matter how much darkness appears over Washington, it’s still a pretty nice spring day here in Albany although it’s not expected to last.

Today will have a chance of showers before 1pm, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms between 1pm and 5pm, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm after 5pm. ⚡Increasing clouds ⛅, with a high of 70 degrees at 3pm. Four degrees above normal. Maximum dew point of 51 at 4pm. South wind 11 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 26 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms. A year ago, we had mostly cloudy skies. The high last year was 55 degrees. The record high of 92 was set in 1970. 5 inches of snow fell back in 1945.❄

The sun will set at 8:06 pm with dusk around 8:37 pm, which is one minute and 5 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At sunset, look for rain ☁ and thunderstorms ☁ and 67 degrees. The dew point will be 49 degrees. There will be a southwest breeze at 9 mph. Today will have 14 hours and 28 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 14 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will have showers and thunderstorms⚡ likely before 9pm, then a chance of showers. Cloudy, then gradually becoming partly cloudy ⛅, with a low of 49 degrees at 5am. Two degrees above normal. Southwest wind 9 to 11 mph becoming northwest in the evening. Winds could gust as high as 21 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms. In 2017, we had mostly cloudy skies. It got down to 43 degrees. The record low of 29 occurred back in 2010.

Back off to work on this Thursday morning. 💼 At least this a pretty causal dress day at work. Got somethings to do today but I don’t think things will be all that intense. 🏇

This weekend looks increasingly cold and cloudy but I’m hoping that the weather will be good enough to mount the solar panel on my truck cap. ☁ Then maybe next weekend I can get back out camping before the start of the Memorial Day Weekend. I noticed that locally the mosquitoes have been awoken for yet another year. 🐜

Definitely things are getting green outside. It’s clear that spring is well underway. One Memorial Day comes and goes most of the Adirondack Roads will be open again, and I’m sure come June I’ll be up at Piesco Powley Road and the Potholers. ⛺I also want to back to Moss Island come the spring and maybe paddle some of the Mohawk River once the locks are open once again.

Looking ahead, there are 28 weeks until Thanksgiving 🦃 when the sun will be setting at 4:27 pm with dusk at 4:57 pm (Standard Time). On that day in 2017, we had rain, cloudy skies and temperatures between 46 and 34 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 45 degrees. We hit a record high of 70 back in 1931.