Good morning! Monday’s come back around again. Two weeks to Memorial Day 🇺🇸. Despite the cold and wet spring, making farmers and everybody else life miserable summer is coming. Cloudy, damp and 44 degrees in the land of the Delmaritian. ☁ There is a east-southeast breeze at 5 mph. 🍃. Rain this afternoon once again, I hope you brought your umbrella ☔. Maybe it’s an exaggeration but it sure feels like the sun ain’t going to shine again. The skies will clear Wednesday around 1 pm.

This morning I feel sick as a dog 🐶 but it’s off to work. Headache, body aches and a bit of a sore throat. But I’ve had this on and off for weeks now. I’m thinking it’s mold exposure from all the rain we’ve had lately in my shitty apartment and that and I hate Mondays. Hopefully this won’t last for long. It’s come and gone every week.

But I shouldn’t hate this week too much as tomorrow is a pay day, the first or second of the month depending on how you look at the calendar. 💵 One week closer to a better tomorrow. I expect a busy day and I’m hoping to get out of work at a reasonable hour, so hopefully the day will go by quickly. No plans for the weekend yet, but I do have to prepare for the Lupine Festival and the Save the Pine Bush booth 🦋 on Saturday. The following weekend is Memorial Day Weekend.

Today will rain, mainly after 1pm. 🌧 High of 50 degrees at 1pm. 19 degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around March 29th. East wind 5 to 7 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New precipitation amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible. A year ago, we had partly cloudy skies in the morning, remaining cloudy in the afternoon. The high last year was 68 degrees. The record high of 86 was set in 2004. There was a dusting of snow in 1953.❄

The sun will set at 8:09 pm with dusk around 8:41 pm, which is one minute and 4 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At sunset, look for rain 🌧 and temperatures around 46 degrees. There will be a east breeze at 6 mph. Today will have 14 hours and 34 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 9 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will rain. 🌧 Low of 40 degrees at 6am. Six degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical night around April 24th. North wind around 6 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New precipitation amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible. In 2018, we had mostly clear skies in the evening, which became partly cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 54 degrees. The record low of 30 occurred back in 1996.

As previously noted, there are 2 weeks until Memorial Day 🇺🇸 when the sun will be setting at 8:22 pm with dusk at 8:56 pm. On that day in 2018, we had rain showers, partly sunny and temperatures between 68 and 54 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 73 degrees. We hit a record high of 94 back in 1914.

It looks like the weather forecast is improving for the long range. ☀ It might be a hot and dry start to June. I’m hoping for nice weather for Memorial Day Weekend but who knows at this point. At some point the weather will change. But regardless I expect a shit ton of black flies.🐜 At least they aren’t bad after dark. And they weren’t biting that much this weekend that was.

While I didn’t get to Moss Island this past weekend, I will probably head over to there sometime in June, 🌼 as part of a trip to Piseco-Powley Road and the potholers. When I do that, I’ll probably also get a bite to eat for dinner at Green Acres drive-in and maybe hike a little bit of the Erie Canal Trail. Might be warm enough to kayak a bit in the Mohawk River too. Not totally sure which week though in June, because I also want to get up to Speculator and do some hiking and camping up along Perkins Clearing Road where I went on Labor Day Weekend last year.🚶🏕

Almost to work… Time to end this blog post. Have a great day!