Good morning! It’s the weekend and the Save the Pine Bush Hike I’m leading from the Madison Avenue Extension at 9:30 AM. 🚶 Also Happy 5 PM Sunset 🌆! Next Saturday is February 🌧. Mostly cloudy and 26 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☁ Calm wind. There is a inch of snow on the ground. ☃ If you are joining us for the hike, you might want to bring the microspikes. ️Things will start to thaw out at around 9 am. 🌡️

Today will have a chance of rain, snow, and sleet before noon, then definitely going rain later on this last Saturday of the January. 🌧 High of 39 degrees at 4pm. Eight degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around March 1st. I’m old enough to remember when it wCalm wind becoming north around 6 mph in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 100%. Total daytime snow and sleet accumulation of less than a half inch possible. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies in the morning, which became mostly sunny by afternoon. The high last year was 35 degrees. The record high of 61 was set in 1938. 9.5 inches of snow fell back in 2000.❄

After the Pine Bush Hike, I have Chet’s wake to go to. 😐 I found my black tie and I’ll get cleaned up and go there. A lot of the older generation 👴 is passing away, a lot of good people and some less so too. He was one of the good ones for sure.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:08 pm with sun having an altitude of 28.3° from the due south horizon (-42.5° vs. 6/21). The golden hour 🏅 starts at 4:17 pm with the sun in the west-southwest (237°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-southwest (245°) starting at 4:57 pm and lasts for 3 minutes and 13 seconds with dusk around 5:29 pm, which is one minute and 17 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 The best time to look at the stars is after 6:04 pm. At sunset, look for rain 🌧 and temperatures around 39 degrees. Forget about watching the 5 pm sunset. There will be a west-northwest breeze at 6 mph. Today will have 9 hours and 42 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 5 seconds over yesterday.

Finally got that USB hub I ordered from China two months ago. 💻 I wanted a second one to use at work to plug my laptop into as I frequently swap cables between my laptop and the work computer. 🔌 Nice little hub with switches and LED lighting. Only two dollars. 💵 Will be perfect for work. One thing I like about ordering from China is it comes with so much less packaging than anything you would get directly from the store. Unfortunately Trump and Cuomo are levying new taxes and shipping fees on things imported from China.

Tonight will rain before 1am, then a slight chance of snow showers after 5am. Patchy fog after 1am. 🌧 Low of 30 degrees at 6am. 16 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around March 27th. West wind around 5 mph becoming calm in the evening. Chance of precipitation is 100%. Little or no snow accumulation expected. In 2019, we had clear skies in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 14 degrees. The record low of -17 occurred back in 1920.

🌹🌻🌼Only 54 days remain until the first day of calendar spring!🌹🌻🌼

That said, with today’s rain ☔ it will feel a lot more like spring than winter especially once most of the remaining snow melts away. And then next Saturday is February. Looks like for Ground Hog Day in Punxsutawney the Ground Hog won’t see his shadow, with the current forecast but that’s subject to change. That said in recent years with the warming climate the Ground Hog rarely sees his shadow. 🐻

As previously noted, next Saturday is February 🌧 when the sun will be setting at 5:08 pm with dusk at 5:37 pm. On that day in 2019, we had cold, sunny and temperatures between 18 and -8 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 32 degrees. We hit a record high of 65 back in 1989.