Good morning! Happy Tuesday. Pay day! That text message from the bank 🏦 is always nice. As Dan O’Halloran said, it’s all about the ducking money. 💵 Mostly sunny and 40 degrees walking down to the Elm Ave Park & Ride – CDTA. ☀ Kind of cold with the 16 mph breeze from the west-northwest 🌬 with gusts up to 28 mph 💨💨💨.

Not a half bad morning to walk down to the bus. 🚍 Lots of sun but cold for sure, at least by what I think mid April should feel like. The grass 🌾 is greening up a bit and a few trees in Albany are starting to bloom but I’m not predicting an early spring by any means. Winter is concluding.

I am very happy that after I updated my phone 📱 software the sound 🔊 is now back and working on the phone. It just makes the bus ride and walking around town more pleasant when I can listen to music or podcasts. 🎧

Today will be sunny 🌞, with a high of 56 degrees at 3pm. Three degrees below normal, which is similiar to a typical day around April 11th. It will feel much colder though. Breezy, with a west wind 16 to 22 mph, with gusts as high as 38 mph. A year ago, we had rain in the morning, which became cloudy by afternoon. The high last year was 49 degrees. The record high of 91 was set in 2012. 5.3 inches of snow fell back in 1983.❄

The sun will set at 7:38 pm with dusk around 8:08 pm, which is one minute and 8 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At sunset, look for partly clear skies 🌄 and temperatures around 52 degrees. Breezy, 17 mph breeze ⛅ from the west-northwest with gusts up to 31mph. Today will have 13 hours and 27 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 45 seconds over yesterday.

I’ve been looking forward to a night that is nice enough to go down to park ⛲ but so far that hasn’t happened. It seems like every warm night it’s cloudy and rainy ☔ and every other night is cold. Maybe I’m rushing spring too much as it will be here before you know it. And probably really hot. My neighbor already installed his air conditioner.

Again tonight, I’ll probably retire to bed early, 🛏 as I continue to have problems with sleeping. I fall asleep pretty early but then find myself waking up at night, and not real rested in the morning. I’ve also been a bit achy the past few mornings. I’m hoping with warmer weather, and the windows open more often, things will get better.

Tonight will be partly cloudy 🌤, with a low of 34 degrees at 4am. Four degrees below normal, which is similiar to a typical night around April 7th. Northwest wind 11 to 16 mph becoming light after midnight. Winds could gust as high as 28 mph. In 2018, we had light drizzle in the evening, which became partly cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 33 degrees. The record low of 21 occurred back in 1971.

One month 📅 from now the Average High will be 70 🐮 when the sun will be setting at 8:12 pm with dusk at 8:44 pm. Much nicer weather🌼 and the black flies are ahead. 🐜 I can’t wait to head out of town again on a nice Friday.

I am continuing to monitor the weather for a weekend from now. ⛺ It looks like the snow will be gone by then in the Southern Adirondacks area the 8-14 day outlook looks warm and dry. AccuWeather’s very long range forecast is more mixed. Doesn’t look that bad and I’m hoping to get several days up north while it’s nice.