Good morning! Happy Winnie the Pooh Day 🍯! Honey is good. I like it a lot on my waffles. Not sure if I’d want to be a bee 🐝 keeper but who knows. Bees are good pollinators. Next Saturday is 5 PM Sunset 🌆. Mostly cloudy and 10 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☁ Calm wind. Still pretty cold out. Things will start to thaw out at tomorrow around 8 am. 🌡️

Doesn’t look like a real nice morning, ☁ cloudy and cold. Meeting my parents for breakfast in Clarksville and then I’ll probably hike Bennett Hill, run to the grocery store and try to be home before the snow. ⛄ I thought about going up to Kehler Preserve on Wolf Hill but I’m not crazy about having to drive down the Letter S should the snow start early – there is a chance of snow as early as noon 🕛. At least it’s warm in my apartment as I turned the heat up last night with the cold weather coming in not wanting the hot water pipe to the shower 🚿 to freeze as happened during the 2009 ice storm black out. Gawd, I’ve lived in this rundown apartment a long time.

Today will snow, mainly after 3pm. The snow could be heavy at times. 🌨 High of 24 degrees at 4pm. Six degrees below normal. Calm wind becoming south 5 to 9 mph in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 21 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. Total daytime snow accumulation of 1 to 3 inches possible. A year ago, we had light snow. The high last year was 35 degrees. The record high of 59 was set in 1973. 7.9 inches of snow fell back in 1891.❄

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:06 pm with sun having an altitude of 26.8° from the due south horizon (-44.1° vs. 6/21). Definitely getting stronger, the nadir of winter is fading away. Thirty degrees elevation by noon by February 1st. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 4:07 pm with the sun in the southwest (235°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-southwest (242°) starting at 4:47 pm and lasts for 3 minutes and 17 seconds with dusk around 5:21 pm, which is one minute and 13 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 The best time to look at the stars is after 5:56 pm. At sunset, look for snow 🌨 and temperatures around 24 degrees. There will be a south-southeast breeze at 9 mph with gusts up to 21mph. Tomorrow will have 9 hours and 30 minutes of daytime, an increase of one minute and 48 seconds over today.

Tonight will snow, mainly before 11pm. The snow could be heavy at times. Temperature rising to around 32 by 3am. South wind 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 22 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New snow accumulation of 1 to 3 inches possible. In 2019, we had light snow in the evening, which stopped and became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 7 degrees. The record low of -28 occurred back in 1971.

🌹🌻🌼Only 61 days remain until the first day of calendar spring!🌹🌻🌼

As previously noted, next Saturday is 5 PM Sunset 🌆 when the sun will be setting at 4:59 pm with dusk at 5:29 pm. On that day in 2019, we had partly sunny, snow showers and temperatures between 35 and 15 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 31 degrees. We hit a record high of 61 back in 1938.