Good morning! Happy Tuesday. Second gear of the week. 🔅That grinds my gears. Not really required we should be able to jump to Hump Day, say the camel dairymen of the world. 🐪 But I’m old enough to remember taking the bus to work and lementing Tuesday on the bus. Next Tuesday is Cinco de Mayo 🤠. Taco Tuesday too. I wonder if we will be able to get Corona beer with the breweries shut down. 🍻 Protest movement! ✊ Overcast and 42 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☁ There is a northwest breeze at 6 mph. 🍃. Not a very nice morning so far but it will get nice out later. The skies will clear around 9 am. ☀

Today will be mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming sunny ⛅ , with a high of 61 degrees at 5pm. Three degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around April 22nd. Northwest wind around 6 mph becoming calm in the afternoon. A year ago, we had light rain in the morning, remaining cloudy in the afternoon. The high last year was 51 degrees. The record high of 92 was set in 1990. There was a dusting of snow in 1966.❄

Hoping to work outside most of the day 😎 and soak up some sun. And then maybe go to the library or Five Rivers so I can upload the remainder of the photos from the weekend and get some fresh air and podcasts. Pay day too but that doesn’t change much as most of the money will be going towards rent. 💵 I also want to shorten my list 📃 of screened rooms for camping so I can order by next weekend and have for the black fly season of Memorial Day Weekend.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:54 pm with sun having an altitude of 61.7° from the due south horizon (-9.1° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 3.2 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 7:14 pm with the sun in the west-northwest (284°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-northwest (291°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 7:53 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 6 seconds with dusk around 8:23 pm, which is one minute and 8 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At dusk you’ll see the First Quarter 🌓 Moon in the west-southwest (254°) at an altitude of 52° from the horizon, 236,323 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 9:01 pm. At sunset, look for mostly clear skies 🌄 and temperatures around 57 degrees. There will be a calm wind. Should be a great evening. Today will have 13 hours and 59 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 33 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will be partly cloudy 🌤, with a low of 37 degrees at 5am. Five degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical night around April 15th. Light and variable wind. In 2019, we had clear skies in the evening, which became partly cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 31 degrees. The record low of 27 occurred back in 1947.

The weekend continues to be good although timing for the rain to pull out Friday must be watched. ☀ Saturday, partly sunny, with a high near 64. Maximum dew point of 46 at 6am. Sunday, a chance of showers. Partly sunny, with a high near 68. Chance of precipitation is 30%. Maximum dew point of 46 at 10am. Typical average high for the weekend is 65 degrees.

As previously noted, next Tuesday is Cinco de Mayo 🤠 when the sun will be setting at 8:00 pm with dusk at 8:31 pm. On that day in 2019, we had rain showers, partly cloudy and temperatures between 58 and 52 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 66 degrees. We hit a record high of 91 back in 1944.