Good evening! Partly cloudy and 53 degrees in Delmar, NY. 🌃 There is a west-northwest breeze at 7 mph. 🍃. Enjoy the nice evening, not expected to last. More rain tomorrow. Temperatures will drop below freezing at Saturday around 4 am. ☃️

Today wasn’t a half bad day, 😊busy at work but unfortunately not a real nice day for working outside so I stayed home and worked on my work computer. 💻 As I only do work on that machine I’m much more productive, not checking my personal email 📧 or social media. After work, I walked down to the town park 🚶 and got some podcasts. 🎧 I am watching some videos I downloaded the other day. It did clear out for a while today and I thought about driving out to Five Rivers 🐸 to work on the wifi. But it was probably much more productive working from home. Hot Meatball sandwich for lunch, hot dogs and beans with cheese for dinner. 🍱Not really adventurous cooking today. 🍲 Yesterday’s tuna fish melt was really good though. 🐠

While it was a pretty nice evening I decided after my walk 🚶 to lay in bed and catch up on some of the YouTube videos I downloaded yesterday while I was working at Five Rivers. 🎥 Farmers are busy with prepping fields this time of year, 🚜 they’ve moved beyond counting the hundreds of loads of manure 💩 they’ve hauled over the winter that’s come and gone. 🌾Things are starting to green up in the valley now, the average low is about 35 at this point and nights below freezing are becoming rare. Even in the upland, spring is coming.

Tonight will be mostly cloudy 🌥, with a low of 40 degrees at 4am. Five degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around April 22nd. Northwest wind 5 to 7 mph becoming south after midnight. 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 41 degrees. The record low of 16 occurred back in 1977.

Been working on growing out my side burns during the quarantine. 🙊 While my hairy face isn’t quite a secret with all the zoom meetings I’ve been participating in 📹, truth be told everybody is getting long and shaggy so I might as well join in the fun and try something different. 💈 I haven’t gotten rid of the goatee I have but I might. Good to try something new and fool all the facial recognition cameras on the street. ☺🎥 It’s creepy enough that the politicians are monitoring people’s cellphone pings and using it to pronounce if people are doing enough social distancing. Honestly if I plan to travel I’ll just pull my cellphone 📱 battery. Stop those creeps in government from judging my pings. 📍

Tonight will have a Waining Gibbous 🌖 Moon with 98% illuminated. The moon is quite bright 🔆 tonight. The Pink 🌸 Moon is on Friday, April 24. The darkest hour is at 12:58 am, followed by dawn at 5:57 am, and sun starting to rise at 6:26 am in the east (79°) and last for 2 minutes and 57 seconds. Sunrise is one minute and 42 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌄 The golden hour ends at 7:03 am with sun in the east (86°). Tonight will have 10 hours and 52 minutes of darkness, a decrease of 2 minutes and 49 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will have showers and possibly a thunderstorm before 3pm, then showers likely. 🌦 High of 52 degrees at 1pm. Three degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around April 2nd. Maximum dew point of 44 at 11am. 🏖️ Breezy, with a south wind 14 to 21 mph becoming west in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 34 mph. Going to be wet and windy but not too cold. But definitely a work from home day I think. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New rainfall amounts between a half and three quarters of an inch possible. I know some other models say it will be colder. A year ago, we had cloudy skies in the morning with more sun in the afternoon. 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.❄

So one model says the upper elevations may get several inches of snow ❄ tomorrow into Good Friday, while others call for cold and cloudy weather for the weekend. Yet others call for all rain ☔ event with more sun ☀ and not as cold this weekend. I don’t know about this weekend. I may or may not have plans, I don’t know. I actually have three different scenarios, maybe four – it depends a lot. ⛺ 🔥 🚶 🎣 🔫 ❓❔❓❔I have to remember that Sunday is Easter 🐰 so I can’t plan on going shopping on Sunday. 🍏 Regardless, I plan on practicing social distancing, 👤although if I stay in town I might join my neighbors six feet away next to their fire pit. 🔥 I’ll have to buy some beer 🍻.

In four weeks on May 6 the sun will be setting in the west-northwest (294°) at 8:01 pm,🌄 which is 31 minutes and 42 seconds later then tonight. Seems both oddly close and far away at same time. Hopefully by then things will be return back to normal. In 2019 on that day, we had partly sunny, patches of fog and temperatures between 74 and 53 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 67 and 44 degrees. The record high of 89 degrees was set back in 1930.

Looking ahead, Earth Day 🌎 is in 2 weeks, Latest Sunset 🌆 is in 11 weeks and Inauguration Day 2021 👴🏻 is in 41 weeks.

🇺🇸🦅Only 43 days remain until the start of Memorial Day Weekend!🦅🇺🇸