Good evening! Mostly cloudy and 37 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☁ Calm wind. The snow is basically gone except from some sad snow men. ☃ ️Temperatures will drop below freezing around 1 am. ☃️

Wasn’t sure how cold ❄ it would be on my evening walk 🚶 but it turned out to be a fairly reasonable night. Little more traffic tonight than recent nights – it’s been so quiet lately when I go for my evening walk. Maybe because it was a little later. Ran into some random person smoking pot on a dark part of the street but I social distance him so no real concerns there. 🚬 People get it, they appreciate it when you give them distance. 🐅

Today went by quickly, it was a pretty quiet day at work. 😂It does save a lot of time not commuting and I kind of like working out of my truck. 💻 That said, conference calls and even Zoom Meetings aren’t like being in person, although I do like the mute 🔕 button ⚫and being able to flip to other browser tabs. Plus work done at home without social media distractions is much more productive. I’ve discovered how truly much more energy efficient the DC car charger for my laptop is compared to the AC charger plugged into my inverter. 🔌

Tonight will be mostly cloudy 🌥, with a low of 28 degrees at 6am. One degree below normal, which is similar to a typical night around March 23rd. Light and variable wind. Not all that much longer before the average night is above freezing in Albany. Then I’ll definitely be able to have heat off. ♨ In 2019, we had mostly clear skies in the evening, which became clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 21 degrees. The record low of 2 occurred back in 1960.

The darkest hour is at 1:02 am, followed by dawn at 6:22 am, and sun starting to rise at 6:50 am in the east (87°) and last for 2 minutes and 54 seconds. Sunrise is one minute and 45 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌄 The golden hour ends at 7:27 am with sun in the east (93°). Tonight will have 11 hours and 32 minutes of darkness, a decrease of 2 minutes and 54 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will be mostly sunny 🌞, with a high of 58 degrees at 4pm. Nine degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around April 14th. Calm wind becoming south 5 to 9 mph in the morning. Should be a really nice day. I won’t mind working down a Five Rivers in my truck tomorrow for sure. Beats working in the dungeon. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies in the morning, remaining cloudy in the afternoon. The high last year was 45 degrees. The record high of 74 was set in 1986. 6.1 inches of snow fell back in 1899.❄

I ordered a new pair of boots 👢 because the ones I’m wear are showing holes through their bottoms. I found I can order my size online and get free shipping, so no digging through the store to find their not in stock. Still having trouble with the state tax department website. 🏬Didn’t get a chance to do any more research into screened in tents for camping during Black Fly Season or some of my longer trips for rainy days 🎪 but I should do that tomorrow.

I also got to think about where I want to go for my April road trip. ⛺ I am thinking Madison and Chenango Counties for good trout fishing 🎣 opportunities but the Adirondacks are still a possibility. 🗻 Depends on how much snow there is. That said, while the state forests camping areas are quite large compared to campgrounds, I kind of want to be as far away from others as possible in this era of social distancing.👾 Plastic gloves while pumping gas ⛽, hand sanitizer and just staying as far away from others as possible, as it seems like the apex of the Coronavirus crisis in New York will be about the week I’m planning my trip.

Took another sleeping pill 💊 so I sleep well because otherwise I wake up during the night and turn on the BBC or NPR Morning Edition 📻 and the news 📰 is so sad and worrying. 😢 Coronavirus is a disaster and it’s only going to get worse before it gets better. It’s a crazy wind driven wildfire that is out of control, going to jump every fire break we put up against it. 🔥 I am not convinced that social distancing is going to have a big impact – it feels good to spray the out of control fire with water 💦 – but it’s not going to stop burning until Coronavirus naturally burns itself out. I bet Texas won’t get hit as hard as New York even though they’ve done far less. My science friend who is on the front lines says Coronavirus is blowing right towards the big nursing homes 👴 in New York City and while they are doing everything they can to stop the march 👾into the facilities, it’s going to arrive shortly and it will lead to a shocking number of casualties. 🏢Its endlessly sad and I think it’s very dishonest of the politicians to act like their is much we can do at this point. 🎤

In four weeks on April 22 the sun will be setting in the west-northwest (288°) at 7:45 pm,🌄 which is 31 minutes and 55 seconds later then tonight. In 2019 on that day, we had partly sunny, warm and temperatures between 74 and 51 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 61 and 40 degrees. The record high of 86 degrees was set back in 1985.

Looking ahead, April Fools Day 🤡 is in 1 weeks, Pink Moon 🌕 is in 2 weeks, Tax Day 💰 is in 3 weeks except its not due to Coronavirus, Earth Day 🌎 is in 4 weeks, Memorial Day 🇺🇸 is in 2 months, Latest Sunset 🌆 is in 13 weeks and Inauguration Day 2021 👴🏻 is in 43 weeks.

🇺🇸🦅Only 57 days remain until the start of Memorial Day Weekend!🦅🇺🇸