Good evening! Partly clear and 52 degrees in Delmar, NY. There is a north breeze at 5 mph. 🍃. Nice evening, sat out back for a while. Evening 🌃 walk was full of moonlight and stars.

A few random things going on at work today 💼 but relatively quiet for most of the day. I went out to Five Rivers Environmental Education Center for a walk 🐸 and the internet. I was super annoyed that I couldn’t upload my Coronavirus map the normal way to the blog – an issue I’m going to research and figure out tomorrow.

I continued to work on my comments and analysis for Save the Pine Bush regarding the development of the apartment complex in the Pine Bush. 🌲Lots of rendering maps and studying data. I may also do some interviews for additional background.

Pulled another fully engorged tick 🐜off my arm this evening 🙋, after I noticed my arm was stinging. I am guessing that I have Lyme disease again but I’ll wait for a bulls eye rash to appear. I did feel a bit achy today so I’m sure that’s what I got. 🎯I should have checked more carefully after hiking back through the brush on Saturday at Partridge Run. 🌲 I’ll have to figure out the telemedicine thing which sucks as I don’t have internet at home but I can probably take pictures and go to the library to get Wi-Fi if necessary. I guess the first step is to call 📞 the nurse line if I am sure I have Lyme. Doxycline is $5 and approved telemedicine is free 🆓 during Coronavirus but I just hope that I don’t get super sick from Lyme. 😷

Tonight will be partly cloudy 🌤, with a low of 38 degrees at 5am. Four degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical night around April 18th. North wind around 5 mph becoming calm in the evening. 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.

Tonight will have a Waxing Crescent 🌒 Moon with 32% illuminated. At 10 PM, the moon was in the west (271°) at an altitude of 36° from the horizon, some 236,130 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 24^th. Buckle up for safety! 💺You don’t want to go to the hospital 🏥 during a pandemic due to an aborted mission to space. Click it or ticket 🎫 from the space cops. 👮 I bet social distancing is hard in zero gravity. The Flower 🌷 Moon is on Thursday, May 7. The darkest hour is at 12:54 am, followed by dawn at 5:24 am, and sun starting to rise at 5:54 am in the east-northeast (70°) and last for 3 minutes and 6 seconds. Sunrise is one minute and 25 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌄 The golden hour ends at 6:33 am with sun in the east-northeast (76°). Tonight will have 9 hours and 59 minutes of darkness, a decrease of 2 minutes and 32 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will have a slight chance of showers after 1pm. Increasing clouds ⛅ with a high of 56 degrees at 1pm. Eight degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around April 11th. Light southeast wind becoming south 8 to 13 mph in the morning. Winds could gust as high as 23 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%. A year ago, we had light rain in the morning, remaining cloudy in the afternoon. The high last year was 58 degrees. The record high of 88 was set in 1888. 1 inch of snow fell back in 1885.❄

Not a real wash out tomorrow 💦but the heavy rain comes Thursday into Friday – probably multiple inches of good soaking rain. ☔ Rain is a good thing. While we’ve had a lot of dreary days in April with some showers things are still quite dry as we go into May and a good soaker would be a good thing. I am a bit concerned about how though it will infringe on my weekend plans – right now the rain looks to continue into Friday night into Saturday. Maybe it won’t be a good weekend to get away? A lot depends on this tick bite and if it develops into full blown Lyme. I should have checked more carefully last weekend.

In four weeks on May 26 the sun will be setting in the west-northwest (300°) at 8:21 pm,🌄 which is 29 minutes and 17 seconds later then tonight. In 2019 on that day, we had partly sunny and temperatures between 86 and 57 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 72 and 50 degrees. The record high of 94 degrees was set back in 2010.

Looking ahead, Cinco de Mayo 🤠 is in 1 week, Primary Day 🗳️ is in 8 weeks, Election Day 2020 🗳️ is in 27 weeks and Election Day 2020 🗳️ is in 27 weeks.

🇺🇸🦅Only 24 days remain until the start of Memorial Day Weekend!🦅🇺🇸