Good evening! Snow flurries, cold, cloudy and 22 degrees in Delmar, NY. ❄ There is a northwest breeze at 14 mph. 🍃. The current wind chill is 9. There are 3 inches of snow on the ground. Maybe less as today was quite mild. But cold tomorrow and Tuesday. ☃ ️Things will start to thaw out at Wednesday around noontime. 🌡️

Stayed home today 🏡, did a lot of cleaning, some reading and quite a bit of time on my now well adjusted quiet exercise bike 🚲 that is no longer making my knee caps hurt from the seat being too low and the sqweaks and noise levels are much lower. Ironically my neighbor is out of town this weekend so it doesn’t matter much but regardless when he’s home I don’t have to worry as much about the lower level of noise bothering him. 🔕

Making a lot of progress on cleaning the bathtub 🛀 which had quite a thick layer of soap on the back splash 💦. That soap can be hard to clean. 🧹 Did lot of dusting too. Just do one thing and then you need to clean another thing. I think when I own my own land I would want a house a lot smaller than my apartment with concrete, wood, or tile floors that are easy to clean.

Not really sick but been a bit congested 😷 so I figured if I stay home I will avoid getting sicker. It’s just the cold that’s been going around the office 🏢 – low level thing I want to burn off without getting sick.

Almost finished reading 📖 that book on Storm Lake, Iowa. Interesting story about what is happening in many rural communities – although I do think the author has a liberal bias – and he’s not necessarily telling the story as the farmers in many cases see it. 🚜

Tonight will have a chance of snow showers, mainly before 10pm. Mostly cloudy 🌧, with a low of 10 degrees at 6am. Four degrees below normal. Maximum wind chill around -4 at 6am; Northwest wind 10 to 14 mph. That wind sucks. Chance of precipitation is 30%. Total nighttime snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible. In 2019, we had light snow in the evening, which became heavier snow by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 0 degrees. Cold night. The record low of -22 occurred back in 1970.

Going to be a pretty cold night 🌃 and I probably should turn up the heat so it won’t be too cold in my apartment by morning.

Tonight will have a Waning Crescent 🌒 Moon with 22% illuminated. The darkest hour is at 12:07 am, followed by dawn at 6:51 am, and sun starting to rise at 7:22 am in the east-southeast (118°) and last for 3 minutes and 16 seconds. Sunrise is 35 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌄 The golden hour ends at 8:05 am with sun in the southeast (125°) at an altitude of 6°. Tonight will have 14 hours and 28 minutes of darkness, a decrease of one minute and 51 seconds over last night.

M. L. King Day will be sunny 🌞, with a high of 22 degrees at 2pm. Eight degrees below normal. Northwest wind around 10 mph. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies in the morning, which became light snow by afternoon. The high last year was 21 degrees. The record high of 53 was set in 2006. 10.4 inches of snow fell back in 2019.❄ I don’t remember it snowing that much on MLK day last year but I think it was a Saturday or Sunday. I’d have to look at the calendar 📅.

Tomorrow should be a nice quiet day. 😴 I want to get an early start, not sure if I will go skiing 🎿 or not Monday. Might be pretty cold based on the forecast, especially the wind. Definitely need to go shopping and later to the library. Also out going to the folks house for dinner, they’re making pork roast 🐖.

In four weeks on February 16 the sun will be setting in the west-southwest (254°) at 5:27 pm,🌄 which is 36 minutes and 20 seconds later then tonight. In 2019 on that day, we had partly sunny and temperatures between 34 and 22 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 35 and 17 degrees. The record high of 61 degrees was set back in 2006.

Looking ahead, 5:30 PM Dusk 🌆 is in 1 weeks, Ground Hog Day 🐻 is in 2 weeks, Snow Moon 🌕 is in 3 weeks, February Save the Pine Dinner 🦋 is a month away, March 🌨 is in 6 weeks, Daylight Savings Time 🌆 is in 7 weeks, Ides of March ✝ is in 8 weeks, Palm Sunday 🌴 is in 11 weeks, Easter 🐰 is in 12 weeks, Mothers Day 👩‍ is in 16 weeks, Pack Rat Day 🐀 is in 17 weeks, Strawberry Moon 🌕 is in 20 weeks and Fathers Day 👨 is in 21 weeks.