March 18, 2020 Morning

Good morning! What day is it? Hump Day, of course. Two weeks to April Fools Day 🤡. Sunny and 34 degrees in Delmar, NY. 🌞 There is a northwest breeze at 6 mph. 🍃. Warming up fast. Going to be a beautiful late winter day, feeling more like spring then winter.

Today will be sunny 🌞, with a high of 50 degrees at 3pm. Five degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around March 28th. Northwest wind around 6 mph becoming calm in the afternoon. A year ago, we had partly cloudy skies. The high last year was 42 degrees. The record high of 69 was set in 2012. 8 inches of snow fell back in 1977.❄

Solar noon 🌞 is at 1:04 pm with sun having an altitude of 46.7° from the due south horizon (-24.1° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 5.7 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 6:29 pm with the sun in the west (264°). 📸 The sunset is in the west (270°) starting at 7:03 pm and lasts for 2 minutes and 53 seconds with dusk around 7:33 pm, which is one minute and 10 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 The best time to look at the stars is after 8:07 pm. At sunset, look for cloudy skies ☁ and temperatures around 46 degrees. There will be a calm wind. Today will have 12 hours and 5 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 55 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will rain likely before 4am, then rain and snow. 🌧 Low of 32 degrees at 6am. Six degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around April 3rd. Calm wind becoming south around 6 mph after midnight. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible. In 2019, we had mostly clear skies in the evening, which became cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 24 degrees. The record low of -10 occurred back in 1967.

A picture perfect weekend on tap. 😎 Saturday, mostly sunny, with a high near 42. Sunday, sunny, with a high near 42. Typical average high for the weekend is 46 degrees.

🌹🌻🌼Only 1 days remain until the first day of calendar spring!🌹🌻🌼

As previously noted, there are 2 weeks until April Fools Day 🤡 when the sun will be setting at 7:21 pm with dusk at 7:50 pm. On that day in 2019, we had mostly sunny and temperatures between 42 and 26 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 52 degrees. We hit a record high of 77 back in 1986.