Good morning! Happy Saturday. Happy weekend! Spring is coming. Two weeks to Average High is 60 🌼. A time of blue skies but more clouds are pushing in and 48 degrees in Delmar, NY. ⛅There is a north breeze at 5 mph. 🍃. More sun then I had thought we would have today. The skies will clear tomorrow around 6 pm.

I am not really sure what my plans are for today. 💭 I might go down and hike at that bird 🐦 preserve on the Hudson River and watch the river traffic, especially if it clouds up early or may be go out to Partridge Run. 🌲 I’d like to get some good hiking in and there are a lot of places in the back part of Partridge Run I haven’t been in years. 👢 Unfortunately my hiking boots are falling apart and the new ones are backordered so I have to be careful not to get my feet too wet.

Today will have a slight chance of showers before 10am. Partly sunny 🌞, with a high of 56 degrees at 4pm. Three degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around April 10th. North wind around 5 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies. The high last year was 47 degrees. The record high of 79 was set in 1950. 4.3 inches of snow fell back in 2016.❄ Definitely should be a nice day if the sun sticks around.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:59 pm with sun having an altitude of 53.3° from the due south horizon (-17.5° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 4.5 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 6:48 pm with the sun in the west (273°). 📸 The sunset is in the west (279°) starting at 7:22 pm and lasts for 2 minutes and 56 seconds with dusk around 7:53 pm, which is one minute and 8 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 Days are definitely getting longer. At dusk you’ll see the Waxing Gibbous 🌔 Moon in the east-southeast (118°) at an altitude of 46° from the horizon, 228,105 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 8:28 pm. At sunset, look for partly cloudy skies 🌃 and temperatures around 53 degrees. There will be a calm wind. Today will have 12 hours and 54 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 51 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will be mostly cloudy 🌥, with a low of 43 degrees at 5am. 10 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around May 1st. Calm wind. Almost like May Day, hopefully by when the bull sheet ends. In 2019, we had mostly clear skies in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 25 degrees. The record low of 14 occurred back in 2016.

As previously noted, there are 2 weeks until Average High is 60 🌼 when the sun will be setting at 7:41 pm with dusk at 8:10 pm. On that day in 2019, we had cloudy, rain showers and temperatures between 58 and 46 degrees. We hit a record high of 90 back in 1976.