Good evening! Heavy rain and 40 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☔ There is a north-northeast breeze at 13 mph. 🍃. No snow here but I heard they’ve gotten a half foot already in Summit in Schoharie County up where I like to camp in Schoharie County. The skies will clear Tuesday around 4 am.

Today was rather cold and rainy ☔ so I stayed home and did some cleaning 🚿 and then went to the car wash and cleaned the salt off Big Red, 🚘 went to Walmart (out of socks!) 👘and gased up the truck. ⛽ I’d like to get back to the Adirondacks this weekend for camping ⛺ and fishing 🎣 but it depends a lot on the weather. Might still be snow up north – all week is expected to be quite cold and rainy with a few exceptions.

I still think it wouldn’t have been a good week for camping ⛺ with the rain today ☔ plus besides my hikes on Saturday I had other things that kept me busy this weekend. It was nice walking at Partridge Run but some of the places I hiked were crowded 👪 when normally when I go up there I don’t see any one at all most times. Maybe I just picked a bad route to hike but it also was an extraordinary nice day except for the bugs which despite the DEET were atrocious. 🐜I’m surprised that they were so bad when it was quite dry up there from the leaf litter to the low flow on most of the seasonal creeks and even in the Switz Kill.

That said, no risk of snow or ice locally. We will be well above freezing. Tonight will rain. 🌧 Low of 38 degrees at 10pm. Three degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical night around April 18th. North wind 11 to 13 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible. Hopefully more rain or snow out in the hilltowns – really dry out that way. In 2019, we had light rain in the evening, which became clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 40 degrees. The record low of 26 occurred back in 1963.

Tonight will have a Waxing Crescent 🌒 Moon with 14% illuminated. At 8 PM, the moon was in the west (269°) at an altitude of 36° from the horizon, some 242,245 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 27^th. Buckle up for safety! 💺 The moon will set in the west-northwest (302°) at 11:34 pm. The Flower 🌷 Moon is on Thursday, May 7. The darkest hour is at 12:54 am, followed by dawn at 5:27 am, and sun starting to rise at 5:57 am in the east-northeast (71°) and last for 3 minutes and 4 seconds. Sunrise is one minute and 27 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌄 The golden hour ends at 6:36 am with sun in the east-northeast (77°). Tonight will have 10 hours and 4 minutes of darkness, a decrease of 2 minutes and 35 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will rain some more and be quite cold. 💦 But fortunately no snow locally. Otherwise, cloudy 🌧, with a high of 48 degrees at 1pm. 15 degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around March 25th. North wind around 11 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. Farmers are planting in the Genesee Valley already, so they certainly don’t want frost. A year ago, we had light rain in the morning with some clearing in the afternoon. The high last year was 50 degrees. The record high of 91 was set in 1962. There was a dusting of snow in 1946.❄

Between wearing the bandana over the face 😷 to product shortages to the nuts around social distancing, shopping is so miserable these days. I find it hard to see and hot under the bandana a little bit Walmart. I thought I would be in Walmart at a low traffic time around six o’clock on Sunday evening but I was wrong. I probably would have gone somewhere besides Walmart but I was hoping to get socks and a shower curtain, the prior which was no in stock. My socks are wearing out, I may have to order online. Hopefully it won’t take Walmart two weeks to ship 📦 like it did with the boots 👢.

That said, I’m quite happy with the lower fuel prices ⛽ but I’m sure they won’t last. But it’s so freaky about touching everything these days and then spraying rubbing alcohol everywhere until you skin cracks and bleeds. ⭕And then getting home and rushing to the sink. I do miss the old routines a lot and look forward to once again putting the suit and tie on and going down to work on the bus 🚍 everyday. And hopefully the Coronavirus Uncle Police 🚨 will crawl back down their rat 🐀 holes and leave us alone again. I’m still not convinced that much of this all isn’t super political in the presidential election of the geriatrics, not that the candidates were spring chickens 🐔 in 2016.

In four weeks on May 24 the sun will be setting in the west-northwest (300°) at 8:20 pm,🌄 which is 29 minutes and 45 seconds later then tonight. In 2019 on that day, we had partly cloudy and temperatures between 70 and 52 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 72 and 50 degrees. The record high of 92 degrees was set back in 1964.

Looking ahead, Mothers Day 👩‍ is in 2 weeks, Pack Rat Day 🐀 is in 3 weeks, Strawberry Moon 🌕 is in 6 weeks and Fathers Day 👨 is in 7 weeks.

🇺🇸🦅Only 26 days remain until the start of Memorial Day Weekend!🦅🇺🇸