Good evening! Cloudy and 34 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☁ There is a west-northwest breeze at 13 mph. 🍃. Temperatures will drop below freezing at around 1 am. ☃️

I walked 🚶 down to the library for a bit, got some videos on the laptop, 📹 rode the exercise bike for a while, 🚲 stocked up the refrigerator 🍲 and washed the truck. While I’ve been feeling awful sick at times today I did get everything I needed to get accomplished although I probably should have done more cleaning in the bathroom 🚽 and the kitchen. 🍜I also fixed a bunch more bugs 🐛 in the blog and worked on some miscellaneous projects.

Tonight will have a chance of rain and snow showers before midnight, then a chance of snow showers. Mostly cloudy 🌧, with a low of 28 degrees at 5am. 13 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around March 22nd. Blustery, with a northwest wind 13 to 22 mph, with gusts as high as 32 mph. Chance of precipitation is 40%. Total nighttime snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible. In 2019, we had cloudy skies in the evening, which became light rain by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 29 degrees. The record low of -24 occurred back in 1904.

Tonight will have a Waxing Crescent 🌒 Moon with 69% illuminated. At dusk you’ll see the moon in the southeast (133°) at an altitude of 46° from the horizon, some 249,313 miles away from where you are looking up from the earth. 🚀 Keeps getting closer to earth, 🌎 I hope it won’t hit. The darkest hour is at 12:01 am, followed by dawn at 6:54 am, and sun starting to rise at 7:26 am in the east-southeast (121°) and last for 3 minutes and 23 seconds. Sunrise is one second earlier than yesterday. 🌄 Big jump forward. The golden hour ends at 8:12 am with sun in the southeast (129°) at an altitude of 6°. Tonight will have 14 hours and 50 minutes of darkness, a decrease of 57 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will be mostly sunny 🌞, with a high of 33 degrees at 1pm. Two degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around February 6th. Breezy, with a northwest wind 18 to 23 mph, with gusts as high as 34 mph. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies in the morning with some clearing in the afternoon. The high last year was 40 degrees. The record high of 64 was set in 1950. 8 inches of snow fell back in 1891.❄

In four weeks on February 1 the sun will be setting in the west-southwest (247°) at 5:08 pm,🌄 which is 33 minutes and 10 seconds later then tonight. In 2019 on that day, we had cold, sunny and temperatures between 18 and -8 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 32 and 15 degrees. The record high of 65 degrees was set back in 1989.

Looking ahead, Winnie the Pooh Day 🍯 is in 2 weeks, 5 PM Sunset 🌆 is in 3 weeks (looking forward to that), February 🌧 is in 4 weeks, Average High is 40 ☀️ is in 2 months, Ides of March ✝ is in 10 weeks (friendly strangers in black cars like that) , Palm Sunday 🌴 is in 13 weeks (tropical farm families like that), Easter 🐰 is in 14 weeks, 8 PM Sunset 🌇 is in 4 months, Mothers Day 👩‍ is in 18 weeks, Pack Rat Day 🐀 is in 19 weeks, Strawberry Moon 🌕 is in 22 weeks and Fathers Day 👨 is in 23 weeks.