April 5, 2020 Morning

Good morning! Happy Palm Sunday 🌴! Not sure if many churches β›ͺ will be giving out palms except for a drive through. Next Sunday is Easter 🐰. That usually is the weekend after Palm Sunday. Overcast and 49 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☁ Calm wind.The skies will clear around 9 pm.

I woke up this morning feeling pretty sick. 🍻 Beer virus of course! That Christmas πŸŽ„ Ale that I finally broke open was pretty strong and a bit hoppy. Stronger than that horse 🐴 piss beer I normally drink although honestly I rarely drink much these days as I’m usually broke. But it was nice sitting out back yesterday evening and it should be nice with the windows open again today.

Today will be scattered showers, mainly after 2pm. Mostly cloudy ☁, with a high of 61 degrees at 2pm. Seven degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around April 20th. Maximum dew point of 47 at 2pm. Calm wind becoming southwest around 5 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 mostly sunny skies in the morning, which became snow by afternoon. The high last year was 42 degrees. The record high of 82 was set in 1928. 2.1 inches of snow fell back in 2019.❄

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:59 pm with sun having an altitude of 53.7Β° from the due south horizon (-17.1Β° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 4.4 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour πŸ… starts at 6:49 pm with the sun in the west (273Β°). πŸ“Έ The sunset is in the west (280Β°) starting at 7:24 pm and lasts for 2 minutes and 56 seconds with dusk around 7:55 pm, which is one minute and 9 seconds later than yesterday. πŸŒ‡ At dusk you’ll see the Waxing Gibbous a🌝 Moon in the east-southeast (111Β°) at an altitude of 34Β° from the horizon, 226,895 miles away. πŸš€ The best time to look at the stars is after 8:29 pm. At sunset, look for clouds ☁and temperatures around 55 degrees. The dew point will be 46 degrees. There will be a west-northwest breeze at 6 mph. Today will have 12 hours and 57 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 51 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will have isolated showers before 10pm. Mostly cloudy 🌧, with a low of 39 degrees at 5am. Five degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around April 19th. Northwest wind 7 to 9 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%. In 2019, we had light rain in the evening, which became cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 35 degrees. The record low of 14 occurred back in 1943.

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