Good evening! Partly clear and 33 degrees in Delmar, NY. Calm wind. Nice night but I ended up staying home and working on a project with my soldering iron. 🔬 I’m having a hard time getting good solder joints on the perf board, I think I might need to use some more flux. I haven’t done many electronics projects in a while and my soldering skills are rusty. I did step outside for a bit on the stars and moon were quite pretty.

I want to rebuild my GPS logger I built two years ago and get that mounted in the truck before summer camping season. The earlier version worked okay until I fried the internal voltage regulator in the Arduino powering it. This time I’ll use an external linear regulator. But first I got to practice and get my soldering skills back up. I should have some more time before winter is over I’m hoping to do more electronics projects. ⚡

Tonight will have increasing clouds ☁, with a low of 31 degrees at 11pm. 16 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around March 29th. Calm wind. In 2019, we had cloudy skies in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 39 degrees. The record low of -13 occurred back in 1978.

Tonight will have a Waxing Gibbous 🌔 Moon with 70% illuminated. At 9 PM, the moon was in the southwest (227°) at an altitude of 60° from the horizon, some 242,969 miles away from where you are looking up from the earth. 🚀 It is pretty high up in the sky tonight. At the state speed limit of 55 mph, you’ll make it there by August 6^th. Being so close to earth 🌎 tonight, you’ll have some time. Buckle up for safety! 💺 Even if your not planning on leaving for the moon tonight, do go out and take a look before it clouds ☁ up again. The Snow ❄ Moon is on Sunday, February 9. The darkest hour is at 12:10 am, followed by dawn at 6:39 am, and sun starting to rise at 7:09 am in the east-southeast (112°) and last for 3 minutes and 8 seconds. Sunrise is one minute and 5 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌄 The golden hour ends at 7:50 am with sun in the east-southeast (119°). Tonight will have 13 hours and 55 minutes of darkness, a decrease of 2 minutes and 26 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will have a chance of freezing rain before 9am, then a chance of rain. Cloudy 🌧, with a high of 44 degrees at 2pm. 12 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around March 15th. Light and variable wind. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. A year ago, we had partly cloudy skies. The high last year was 56 degrees. The record high of 61 was set in 1991. 15.5 inches of snow fell back in 1926.❄

In four weeks on March 2 the sun will be setting in the west (261°) at 5:46 pm,🌄 which is 35 minutes and 56 seconds later then tonight. In 2019 on that day, we had snow showers, cloudy and temperatures between 37 and 25 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 39 and 21 degrees. The record high of 65 degrees was set back in 1991.

Looking ahead, Clean Your Computer Day 🧹 is in 1 week, Presidents Day 👴 is in 2 weeks, Read Across America Day 📚 is in 4 weeks, Worm Moon 🌕 is in 5 weeks, Arbor Day 🌳 is in 12 weeks, 8 PM Sunset 🌇 is in 13 weeks, Flower Moon 🌕 is in 15 weeks, Memorial Day 🇺🇸 is in 16 weeks, June 🍹 is in 17 weeks, Average High is 80 🏖 is in 20 weeks, and Election Day 2020 🗳️ is in 9 months.

🇺🇸🦅Only 108 days remain until the start of Memorial Day Weekend!🦅🇺🇸