Good morning! What day is it? Hump Day, of course. Two weeks to National Cheese Lovers Day 🧀. Drizzle and 37 degrees in Delmar. ☔Blustery, with a stiff breeze at 26 mph the west-northwest 💨 with gusts up to 44 mph 💨💨💨. I did not bring an umbrella, not an appropriate technology for today’s weather. The current wind chill is 25. Temperatures will drop below freezing at around 5 pm. ☃️

Today will rain and snow likely before 3pm, then a slight chance of snow between 3pm and 4pm. Mostly cloudy 🌧, with a high of 41 degrees at 11am. 11 degrees above normal, which is similiar to a typical day around March 7th. Temperatures will drop in the afternoon. Windy, with a west wind around 26 mph, with gusts as high as 49 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. Total daytime snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible. A year ago, we had mostly sunny in the morning, which became light snow by afternoon. The high last year was 37 degrees. The record high of 62 was set in 2008. 9.9 inches of snow fell back in 1953.❄

The sun will set at 4:40 pm with dusk around 5:12 pm, which is one minute and 4 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At sunset, look for mostly cloudy skies ☁ and temperatures around 34 degrees. The wind chill around sunset will be 21. ☃️Blustery, 🌬 with a stiff breeze at 26 mph the west-northwest with gusts up to 47mph. Today will have 9 hours and 16 minutes of daytime, a increase of one minute and 19 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will have a slight chance of snow showers before 8pm, then a slight chance of snow showers after 1am. Mostly cloudy 🌧, with a low of 26 degrees at 6am. 12 degrees above normal, which is similiar to a typical night around March 16th. Maximum wind chill around 16 at 4am; Blustery, with a northwest wind 17 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 34 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%. In 2018, we had cloudy in the evening, which became mostly sunny by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 10 degrees. The record low of -13 occurred back in 1968.

As we get further into the future relatively mild rainy winter days are increasingly the norm. 💧Precipitation is certainly better than dry conditions and I guess rain is easier than snow for happy motoring but I do get tired of the clouds. I shouldn’t make too much out of it, with much colder weather expected come the weekend. And it was certainly frigid early last year. Are smokers suicidal or just addicted? 🚬

Last night I went over John Wolcott to continue going through his historical files, and we made some progress on that. It’s good to being this while he can remember, as I wouldn’t know the meaning of half of the files. 📂

Today is the first session day of the year. Or as I like to say, Day 61 counting backwards. Still have to upgrade my dress shoes that have been wearing out for a while 👞and maybe think about investing in a few more pairs of pants but I’ll try to sew them up and get some more use out of them. I kind of like the thread bare look. ✂Means I’m frugal. I finally bought a new iron board cover, for five bucks. I didn’t know they sold them after the one got mildewy a few years ago and got burnt. I kind of like the routine, it’s been my twelfth session, eighth as a communications coordinator.

This will be another stay home weekend, one that will be fairly chilly and cold but that’s fine as their is much to do. 🏡 At least the heat is working well in my apartment. But then again it’s been mild.

As previously noted, there are 2 weeks until National Cheese Lovers Day 🧀 when the sun will be setting at 4:57 pm with dusk at 5:28 pm. On that day in 2018, we had rain and temperatures between 48 and 37 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 31 degrees. We hit a record high of 64 back in 1906.