Good morning! Happy Thursday. Partly sunny and 37 degrees at the Elm Ave Park & Ride – CDTA. There is a west-northwest breeze at 10 mph. 🍃. A pretty decent day for mid-March, didn’t mind my walk down to the Park and Ride at all. Crazy, fast driver again today, no waiting around today. 🚃 Temperatures will drop below freezing at around 11 pm. ☃️

Feeling better this morning, 👃 my nose isn’t as plugged as it was and I’m not as achy. Maybe it’s just the better weather. 😎 If it’s Coronavirus, it’s pretty mild and not impacting me much. More likely it’s just an a ordinary rhinovirus. I should wash my hands better — after reading that book about butchering small livestock 🔪 I’ve learned how hard it is to clean one’s hands really well. 🙌 I don’t know or maybe I just like the fact it’s not a session day so I can go for my walk, and the fresh air makes me feel heathy. The past few nights I’ve not been doing my evening walking or riding the bike, which means my jeans feel a bit tight with the extra calories I’m consuming at work. 👖 It’s just tempting to have danish 🍩 with my coffee when I’m at work or finish off the pot of whatever I’ve cooked at home.

Today will be sunny 🌞, with a high of 46 degrees at 1pm. Six degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around March 19th. Further evidence that the weather is only going to improve from here on out. Northwest wind 8 to 10 mph. A year ago, we had partly cloudy skies in the morning, remaining cloudy in the afternoon. The high last year was 28 degrees. The record high of 71 was set in 1964. 8.6 inches of snow fell back in 1917.❄

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:08 pm with sun having an altitude of 41.6° from the due south horizon (-29.3° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 6.8 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. Your shadow is getting sholder. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 5:13 pm with the sun in the west-southwest (257°). 📸 The sunset is in the west (263°) starting at 5:48 pm and lasts for 2 minutes and 55 seconds with dusk around 6:18 pm, which is one minute and 13 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At dusk you’ll see the Waxing Gibbous 🌔 Moon in the east-southeast (109°) at an altitude of 53° from the horizon, 233,369 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 6:52 pm. At sunset, look for mostly clear skies 🌄 and temperatures around 43 degrees. There will be a north-northwest breeze at 6 mph. Today will have 11 hours and 27 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 53 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will be partly cloudy 🌤, with a low of 28 degrees at 3am. Six degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around March 22nd. Calm wind. In 2019, we had mostly clear skies in the evening, which became partly cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 9 degrees. The record low of -21 occurred back in 1948.

Never got to the store last night, 🚽 but I found enough toilet paper for now and I opened up some cans for veggies. I think if I play around I can find enough things in the pantry so I won’t need to go to the store before Saturday. 😋 If I had been responsible I would have gone shopping yesterday, but I was lazy and got busy working on the updating the blog code.💻

Blog renovations continue, and I think I’ve discovered another reason why my blog is slow at times — the redirects for the images and maps are written in a way that is slow. 🔀 I thought I had fixed that issue years ago, but I discovered another issue that is requiring the PHP interprator when it should be a simple redirect. That said, the new content uploader is almost done, as is the comparison mapper code. I am hoping to launch the updated code this weekend.

Today in 1970, Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty goes into effect after ratification by 43 nations. 💥 In 1933, during the height of the Great Depression, President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares a “bank holiday”, closing all U.S. banks and freezing all financial transactions.🏦

A picture perfect weekend on tap. 😎 Saturday, sunny, with a high near 40. Northwest wind 11 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph. Sunday, mostly sunny, with a high near 53. Typical average high for the weekend is 41 degrees. Sounds like a nice weekend but the wind on Saturday might make it feel chilly. Still planning on staying in town this weekend, unpacking my camping gear from my truck — prepping for the upcoming camping season, and loading up a load of bottle and cans to take to the recycling center later in the month. ♻ Once the cans, glass, and accumulated plastic bottles are to the recycling center, I should be ready for camping for the year with plenty of cold beer, fire, and nights in wilderness. 🏕

🌹🌻🌼Only 14 days remain until the first day of calendar spring!🌹🌻🌼

One month 📅 from now will be Palm Sunday 🌴 when the sun will be setting at 7:26 pm with dusk at 7:55 pm (Daylight Savings Time). The average high temperature is 32 degrees, with a record high of 61 in 1895.