Good evening! Rain and 40 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☔ There is a north breeze at 5 mph. 🍃. The rain has done a number on the snow. ☃ ️Temperatures will drop below freezing at tomorrow around 6 am. ☃️ It could have been a pretty good snow storm but too warm.

It was a nice Pine Bush Hike with three present. ☁ Kind of a dreary day for the Pine Bush hike. Just not a lot of sun but at least the rain held off. 🚶 Lots of nice views especially down by Willow Street. Knee is bothering me a bit again though. Got home, did some reading and riding on the exercise bike 🚲. Almost done with that book I’m reading 📖 on Rupert Murdock. Watched a little bit of the YouTube I downloaded. Made a big pot of pasta with veggies and meatballs for lunch, pollished off the rest for dinner. 🍝Road the exercise bike for over an hour maybe closer to two this evening.

The funeral for Chet was nice with 75 people there according to one of the ushers. 👪 Ran the gammot of folks from rural Fulton County in the Adirondacks where he grew up to DOT workers and sportsman he knew to folks from Save the Pine Bush. Nice celebration of a man who did so much for the community from all the work he did at the Sacandaga Conservation Association to helping children in Ghana through the Westminster Presbyterian Church to Save the Pine Bush. 🌲So many stories will go on told but I learned a lot from him during the Pine Bush dinners and hikes over the years. He was quite healthy and lived a good life until his sudden death at age 73 due to puemonia probably he contracted after black powder hunting in the Adirondacks this past autumn. 🍳 He was still getting up most days at 4:30 to help feed the several hundred homeless persons at the churches breakfast program several days a week.

Tonight will rain likely, mainly before midnight. Mostly cloudy 🌧, with a low of 32 degrees at 5am. 18 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around April 1st. North wind around 5 mph becoming calm after midnight. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. 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.

Tonight will have a Waxing Crescent 🌒 Moon with 1% illuminated. At dusk you’ll see the moon in the west-southwest (241°) at an altitude of 4° from the horizon, some 248,307 miles away from where you are looking up from the earth. 🚀 The Snow ❄ Moon is on Sunday, February 9. The darkest hour is at 12:08 am, followed by dawn at 6:47 am, and sun starting to rise at 7:17 am in the east-southeast (116°) and last for 3 minutes and 13 seconds. Sunrise is 48 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌄 The golden hour ends at 8:00 am with sun in the east-southeast (123°) at an altitude of 6°. Tonight will have 14 hours and 16 minutes of darkness, a decrease of 2 minutes and 8 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will have a slight chance of rain and snow showers before 11am, then a slight chance of rain showers between 11am and 1pm. Becoming partly sunny 🌦, with a high of 40 degrees at 1pm. Nine degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around March 4th. Southwest wind 3 to 7 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies in the morning, which became mostly sunny by afternoon. The high last year was 28 degrees. The record high of 59 was set in 1950. 8.5 inches of snow fell back in 1949.❄

I probably should run to the store and pick up a few more supplies 🏬 but I don’t need all that much this week for shopping. I might wash the remaining salt off my truck tomorrow as the salt is washed off the roads and I don’t expect any more to be applied tomorrow. Might be too muddy to hike anywhere but the rail trail tomorrow.

In four weeks on February 22 the sun will be setting in the west-southwest (257°) at 5:35 pm,🌄 which is 36 minutes and 28 seconds later then tonight. In 2019 on that day, we had mostly cloudy skues and temperatures between 39 and 28 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 36 and 19 degrees. The record high of 68 degrees was set back in 1997.

Looking ahead, February 🌧 is in 1 week, Average High is 50 🌸 is in 9 weeks, Average High is 60 🌼 is in 12 weeks, Average High is 70 🐮 is in 16 weeks, Memorial Day Weekend Starts 🏕️ is in 17 weeks, Memorial Day 🇺🇸 is in 4 months, Last Day of Session 🏛 is in 21 weeks and Summer ️⛱️ is in 21 weeks.