Good morning! Three weeks to Ground Hog Day 🐻 . Come out little ground hog, put your head above the ground. Can’t you see there ain’t no shadow, on the cold hard ground. It’s not going to be too much longer until the hog sees his shadow. Dark and cloudy and 23 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☁ Calm wind. There are 2 inches of snow on the ground. ☃ ️Things will start to thaw out at around 11 am. 🌡️

Today will be partly sunny 🌞, with a high of 35 degrees at 2pm. I’ll believe it when I see it. I mean we did get 5 minutes of sun yesterday, but it was real brief. Five degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around February 15th. Calm wind becoming west around 6 mph. A year ago, we had cloudy skies. The high last year was 67 degrees, which was the record. 12.8 inches of snow fell back in 2011.❄

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:04 pm with sun having an altitude of 25.8° from the due south horizon (-45° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 12.4 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 4:00 pm with the sun in the southwest (233°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-southwest (241°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 4:44 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 20 seconds with dusk around 5:15 pm, which is one minute and 7 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 The best time to look at the stars is after 5:51 pm. At sunset, look for partly cloudy skies 🌃 and temperatures around 34 degrees. There will be a calm wind. Tomorrow will have 9 hours and 22 minutes of daytime, an increase of one minute and 31 seconds over today.

Tonight will be mostly cloudy 🌥, with a low of 25 degrees at 5am. 11 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around March 14th. Light southwest wind. In 2020, we had cloudy skies. It got down to 29 degrees. The record low of -18 occurred back in 1968.

Right now, a split verdict on the weekend. 😕 Saturday, rain likely before 4pm, then a chance of rain and snow. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 40. Chance of precipitation is 70%. Sunday, partly sunny, with a high near 36. Typical average high for the weekend is 30 degrees.

🌹🌻🌼Only 67 days remain until the first day of calendar spring!🌹🌻🌼

As previously noted, there are 3 weeks until Ground Hog Day 🐻 when the sun will be setting at 5:10 pm with dusk at 5:40 pm. On that day in 2020, we had partly cloudy skies, some snow showers and temperatures between 37 and 28 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 32 degrees. We hit a record high of 53 back in 1981.