Good evening! Clear and 44 degrees in Delmar, NY. There is a northwest breeze at 5 mph. 🍃 I’m sitting out back and it’s a pretty nice starry ✨ evening but it’s getting cold quickly. Temperatures will drop below around 2 am. ☃️

So it was a pretty nice day for a work day. ☀ Hard to argue against working from home when the sun is shining. That said, everything is so up in the air these days, I miss the old days. I spent a few hours at Five Rivers Environmental Education Center working on some stuff on the internet and uploading some new content to the blog and then I went for a walk up Bennett Hill. 🚶 Some people are a little annoyed but most are friendly when I step way back for social distancing on the trail. You hear how bad Coronavirus can be for some one even my age, and I really want to avoid it as long as possible 🙆 but I’m also not going to lock myself in my moldy nasty apartment when there is fresh air outside to breathe in away from others. Sat out back for a while after my evening walk. 🌃 Read for a while under the bright 🔆 100 watt bulb out back. Lots of stars tonight and the moon is pretty.

Tonight will be mostly clear 🌃, with a low of 29 degrees at 4am. One degree below normal, which is similar to a typical night around March 26th. Northwest wind around 5 mph becoming calm in the evening. In 2019, we had mostly clear skies in the evening, which became cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 33 degrees. The record low of 3 occurred back in 1923.

Tonight will have a Waxing Crescent 🌒 Moon with 12% illuminated. At 10 PM, the moon was in the west-northwest (284°) at an altitude of 6° from the horizon, some 248,314 miles away from where you are looking up from the earth. 🚀 At the state speed limit of 55 mph, you’ll make it there by October 2^nd. Buckle up for safety! 💺 The Pink 🌸 Moon is on Tuesday, April 7. The darkest hour is at 1:01 am, followed by dawn at 6:18 am, and sun starting to rise at 6:46 am in the east (86°) and last for 2 minutes and 54 seconds. Sunrise is one minute and 45 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌄 The golden hour ends at 7:24 am with sun in the east (92°). Tonight will have 11 hours and 27 minutes of darkness, a decrease of 2 minutes and 53 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will have a chance of rain, mainly after 4pm. 💦Increasing clouds ⛅, with a high of 53 degrees at 4pm. Three degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around April 3rd. Calm wind becoming south 5 to 7 mph in the afternoon. 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 in the morning with some clearing in the afternoon. The high last year was 55 degrees. The record high of 85 was set in 1945. 14.2 inches of snow fell back in 1932.❄

I am thinking about an early morning walk 🚶 at Schodack Island State Park and then swinging by the office to pick up the laptop and return the broken network adapter 🔌 then get the box of files 📂 for the Reszin Adam’s documentary from John Wolcott that I’m working Cynthia Pooler on. I’ve been listening to her Focus on Albany podcast lately, it’s really good. I’m not going to really visit much with John though – he’s pretty frail so his doctor 😷 is recommending a very strict isolated for him. It’s understandable – if he gets the bug he’s not likely to survive.

I haven’t really decided if I will visit my parents this weekend. 👪 It would be nice to join them for Sunday dinner but probably safer if I stayed away. Hopefully only a few more weeks before the risk drops significantly with the warming weather and the peak of the virus infecting all the easy targets. Plus I’ve gotten the allegeries bothering me again. Maybe from mold from cleaning the bathroom 🚽 although lately I think it’s something outside that’s been irritating my nose 👃 and throat. Been flaring up and then going away for two weeks now, although Claradin D helps a lot.

I’ve been studying the numbers 🔢 and the curve compared to where it is and despite rising there seems to some leveling off with Coronavirus at least in Upstate NY. I am hopeful that we can reach the peak relatively soon, herd immunity will build up and life can return to normal. 📊 That said, the news 📰 is going to get devastatingly bad over the next few weeks, we all are expected to loose at least a few loved ones and friends from Coronavirus but hopefully not too many people. Projections aren’t reality and expodential curves can and do bend by breaking chains 🔗 of transmission but it’s still a disaster. And that doesn’t even include the chaos in all other parts of the economy or how our civil society is falling apart and corruption is surging at all levels of government all thanks to an opportunistic strain of RNA that’s hijacking the bodies of humans across the world.

In four weeks on April 24 the sun will be setting in the west-northwest (289°) at 7:48 pm,🌄 which is 31 minutes and 54 seconds later then tonight. In 2019 on that day, we had mostly cloudy and temperatures between 61 and 42 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 62 and 40 degrees. The record high of 81 degrees was set back in 2001.

Looking ahead, Good Friday ✝️ is in 2 weeks, Arbor Day 🌳 is a month away, May 🕊 is in 5 weeks and 8:30 PM Sunset ️⛱️ is in 10 weeks.

🇺🇸🦅Only 55 days remain until the start of Memorial Day Weekend!🦅🇺🇸