February 23, 2020 Morning

Good morning! Happy Sunday. A beautiful morning. 🐦 Next Sunday is March 🌨. Sunny and 21 degrees in Delmar, NY. 🌞 Calm wind. Warming up fast. Things will start to thaw out at around 8 am. 🌡️

This morning around eight I’m thinking about walking out to Five Rivers 🐸, doing some bird watching, having lunch at home before heading out to Partridge Run for a hike in the afternoon. Should be a great day.

Today will be sunny 🌞, with a high of 49 degrees at 3pm. 12 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around March 26th. Going to be a beautiful day. Calm wind becoming south around 5 mph. A year ago, we had cloudy skies in the morning with more sun in the afternoon. The high last year was 38 degrees. The record high of 69 was set in 2017. 6.9 inches of snow fell back in 1935.❄

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:10 pm with sun having an altitude of 37.4° from the due south horizon (-33.4° vs. 6/21). The golden hour 🏅 starts at 4:59 pm with the sun in the west-southwest (251°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-southwest (257°) starting at 5:34 pm and lasts for 2 minutes and 58 seconds with dusk around 6:05 pm, which is one minute and 16 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 The best time to look at the stars is after 6:39 pm. At sunset, look for mostly clear skies 🌄 and temperatures around 44 degrees. There will be a calm wind. Today will have 10 hours and 56 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 48 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will be mostly clear 🌃, with a low of 29 degrees at 5am. 10 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around March 24th. Light south wind. In 2019, we had cloudy skies in the evening, which became light drizzle by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 34 degrees. The record low of -11 occurred back in 1894.

🌹🌻🌼Only 25 days remain until the first day of calendar spring!🌹🌻🌼

As previously noted, there are 2 weeks until Daylight Savings Time 🌆 when the sun will be setting at 6:53 pm with dusk at 7:22 pm (Daylight Savings Time). On that day in 2019, we had cold weather, but mostly sunny skies and temperatures between 34 and 7 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 41 degrees. We hit a record high of 68 back in 2012.