Good morning! Happy Sunday. Next Sunday is the start of the Coldest Week of the Year 🌬 . Partly sunny and 22 degrees in Delmar, NY. 🌅 There is a northwest breeze at 7 mph. 🍃. There are 2 inches of snow on the ground. ☃ ️Things will start to thaw out at Tuesday around 11 am. 🌡️

It was sunny for a while 🌞 and then it got cloudy ⛅. They are talking about more sun later but it seems like lately the forecasts have been over promising. I am going to hike at Holt Preserve and go out to the folks house 🏡 later on for Sunday dinner 🍲.

Today will be mostly sunny 🌞, with a high of 34 degrees at 2pm. Four degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around February 11th. Northwest wind 5 to 7 mph. A year ago, we had cloudy skies in the morning, which became light rain by afternoon. The high last year was 47 degrees. The record high of 55 was set in 2016. 7.3 inches of snow fell back in 1984.❄

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:04 pm with sun having an altitude of 25.5° from the due south horizon (-45.3° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 12.6 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 3:58 pm with the sun in the southwest (233°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-southwest (241°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 4:42 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 20 seconds with dusk around 5:13 pm, which is one minute and 5 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 The best time to look at the stars is after 5:49 pm. At sunset, look for mostly sunny skies 🌃 and temperatures around 31 degrees. There will be a north breeze at 5 mph. Today will have 9 hours and 17 minutes of daytime, an increase of one minute and 22 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will be partly cloudy 🌃 , with a low of 19 degrees at 5am. Five degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around February 21st. Maximum wind chill around 22 at 12am; Northwest wind around 5 mph becoming calm in the evening. In 2020, we had light rain in the evening, which became partly cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 46 degrees. The record low of -25 occurred back in 1968.

🌹🌻🌼Only 69 days remain until the first day of calendar spring!🌹🌻🌼 Day by day, spring is coming.

As previously noted, next Sunday is Coldest Week of the Year 🌬 when the sun will be setting at 4:49 pm with dusk at 5:20 pm. On that day in 2020, we had mostly sunny skies and temperatures between 24 and 10 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 30 degrees. We hit a record high of 62 back in 1889.