Good evening! Light rain and 71 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☔ There is a south breeze at 13 mph. 🍃 with gusts up to 23 mph 💨💨💨. The dew point is 58 degrees. Damp evening, I was going to go down to the library but the rain picked up and I got working on some code.

After my walk out to Five Rivers Environmental Education Center 🐸 I explored the nature center for a bit. First time I’ve gone inside. They have some nice exhibits to help with species identification. I usually don’t like the fancy nature centers but this one was interesting.

Then I went home and took a nap. I took a shower 🚿 and then cooked dinner – hot meatballs subs with the Falvo’s meat balls I bought a few weeks ago and worked on some code relating to syncing the YouTube videos I downloaded to mp3s on my phone.

Tonight will have showers and possibly a thunderstorm before midnight, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms between midnight and 2am, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm after 2am. 🌧 Low of 63 degrees at 6am. 24 degrees above normal. Maximum dew point of 61 at 4am. 🏖️ South wind 13 to 17 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New rainfall amounts between a half and three quarters of an inch possible. Windows are staying open tonight. In 2018, we had mostly clear in the evening, which became cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 31 degrees. The record low of 19 occurred back in 1875.

Tonight will have a Waning Gibbous Moon 🌖 with 96% illuminated. The moon will set at 7:08 am. The Last Quarter Moon is on Thursday night with a chance of showers. The Flower Moon 🌝 is in 4 weeks. The sun will rise at 6:06 am with the first light at 5:36 am, which is one minute and 34 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌄 Tonight will have 10 hours and 22 minutes of darkness, a decrease of 2 minutes and 41 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will have showers and possibly a thunderstorm before noon, then showers likely. Some of the storms could produce heavy rain. 🌧 High of 70 degrees at 4pm. Nine degrees above normal, which is similiar to a typical day around May 16th. Maximum dew point of 61 at 6am. 🏖️ South wind 13 to 16 mph, with gusts as high as 29 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms. A year ago, we had cloudy conditions. The high last year was 47 degrees. The record high of 93 was set in 1941. 5.8 inches of snow fell back in 1947.❄

Not expecting a very good day tomorrow. 😢 But that’s fine, I’ll go down to the library for a while and work on some projects around the apartment.🏡 If the weather is rain free for a while I might start putting some of the camping gear back into my truck. I’m looking to leave on Wednesday after work most likely for camping which means everything needs to be packed and groceries bought by Tuesday evening.🍱 To ensure adequate cooling in the cooler, I’ve been freezing salt water ice in waterproof plastic coffee cans which should work quite well. I should look at getting some small waterproof thermometers to monitor the temperature in the coolers. I might run to Walmart and Lowe’s tomorrow to buy some more epoxy for tacking the LED strip up in the truck cap.💡

Looking ahead to Sunday, a chance of showers, mainly after 2pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 66. South wind 5 to 9 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. Maximum dew point of 49 at 6am. Typical average high for the weekend is 61 degrees.

Again, not a very nice day for Easter. 🐰 I don’t think I’ll plan on doing much hiking that day 🚶 but I could change my mind. I think mom and dad are planning Easter dinner pretty early so I don’t want to head too far out of town. I might join them at the diner on Easter morning, but it depends if it’s nice enough to go hiking later on as I don’t want to drive out to Clarksville and then turn around and drive home. Seems like a lot of wasted miles. 🚶

In four weeks on May 17 the sun will be setting at 8:13 pm,🌄 which is 30 minutes and 54 seconds later then tonight. In 2018 on that day, we had mostly cloudy and temperatures between 80 and 59 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 70 and 47 degrees. The record high of 92 degrees was set back in 2017.

Looking ahead, Pack Rat Day 🐀 is in 4 weeks, Memorial Day Weekend Starts 🏕️ is in 5 weeks, Dog Days of Summer 🌻 is in 11 weeks and Labor Day Weekend Begins 👨‍🏭 is in 19 weeks.