Good morning! Happy Thursday. Tomorrow is Good Friday. ➕ Four weeks to Flower Moon 🌕. Rain showers and 46 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☔ There is a south-southeast breeze at 11 mph. 🍃. Damp and wet but certainly not pouring. Temperatures will drop below freezing at Sunday around 2 am. ☃️

Today will have showers and possibly a thunderstorm, mainly before 4pm, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 4pm. 🌦 High of 51 degrees at 2pm. Two degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around April 4th. Maximum dew point of 43 at 11am. 🏖️ South wind 11 to 17 mph becoming west in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 32 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies in the morning with a few breaks of sun the afternoon. With the rain and wind, it will feel pretty cold. But maybe clearing up late. The high last year was 65 degrees. The record high of 77 was set in 1991. 13.3 inches of snow fell back in 2000.❄

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:57 pm with sun having an altitude of 55.2° from the due south horizon (-15.6° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 4.2 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 6:53 pm with the sun in the west (275°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-northwest (282°) starting at 7:28 pm and lasts for 2 minutes and 57 seconds with dusk around 7:59 pm, which is one minute and 9 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 The best time to look at the stars is after 8:35 pm. At sunset, look for rain 🌧 and temperatures around 46 degrees. Breezy, 24 mph breeze ⛅ from the west with gusts up to 45mph. Today will have 13 hours and 8 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 50 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will have a slight chance of rain showers before 3am, then a chance of rain and snow showers. Partly cloudy 🌧, with a low of 34 degrees at 3am. One degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical night around April 7th. Breezy, with a west wind 16 to 22 mph, with gusts as high as 40 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. Little or no snow accumulation expected. In 2019, we had cloudy skies. It got down to 32 degrees. The record low of 21 occurred back in 1974.

Blustery and a bit cool but sunny this Easter Weekend on we get past Good Friday. ☀ Saturday, mostly sunny, with a high near 48. West wind 15 to 18 mph, with gusts as high as 31 mph. Sunday, partly sunny, with a high near 59. Typical average high for the weekend is 56 degrees.

I am not convinced this will be a very good weekend ☀ despite the sun on Saturday. But I’m watching and thinking 💭 about my options carefully. It is a three day weekend so I do have a few different options but hopefully it won’t be too cold and nasty. Plus who knows how much snow they’ll have up north today.

Looking ahead, there are 4 weeks until Flower Moon 🌕 when the sun will be setting at 8:02 pm with dusk at 8:34 pm. On that day in 2019, we had partly cloudy, rain showers and temperatures between 66 and 49 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 67 degrees. We hit a record high of 92 back in 1930.