Good morning! What day is it? A Snowy Hump Day, of course. 🐪 I wonder if you can make ice cream with camel milk? I guess you probably can. 🍨 Three weeks to 5:30 PM Sunset 🌇 . Snow and 27 degrees in Delmar, NY. ❄ Calm wind. Picked up a few inches last night – now there are 4 inches of snow on the ground. ☃ ️Things will start to thaw out at around 1 pm. 🌡️

Kind of a pretty morning after the snow storm, 🌨 which really wasn’t much of a big deal – maybe 3 or 4 inches we got last night although it’s expected to stay around with the cold. 😴 I was feeling a bit congested last night, so I ended up taking some antihistamine and falling asleep around 5 AM until the morning. I made a big pan of Marconi and Cheese last night so I’m not real hungry this morning, so just some coffee ☕ and English muffins before the morning walk in the winter wonderland. If it only would clear out now… at least I heard the sidewalk snowplow go by so that should be clear by the time I do my walk. Listening to Simon and Garfunkel’s I am a Rock, as I look out the window at the falling snow, getting ready for my walk. 🚶

Yesterday, was a pretty quiet day. 🤔 I felt kind of sick and stuffy for part of the day, but it was mostly just emails and watching session on my phone. I got so chilled through by the middle of the day, so I ended up spending too much of the day sitting by the heater. I turned the downstairs heat up a few degrees last night before bed so it’s pretty comfortable today, and I’m feeling better. I’m just ready for winter to be other. I misplaced my tax reforms yesterday, and was looking for them, and found my 2008 tax form. I make a lot more money then I did 12 years ago, although money feels just as tight if not tighter because everything has gotten more expensive.

Today will snow, mainly before 10am, then a chance of snow showers after noon. 🌦 High of 33 degrees at 2pm. Three degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around February 11th. Light northwest wind increasing to 5 to 9 mph in the morning. Chance of precipitation is 80%. Total daytime snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies in the morning, which became cloudy by afternoon. The high last year was 43 degrees. The record high of 62 was set in 1974. 9.3 inches of snow fell back in 1963.❄

I have a mid-day virtual meeting today, 💼 but I wasn’t seriously considering going shopping at lunch time today. I’ll probably do Thursday at lunchtime to buy groceries then go to the library briefly, as there will be sun but I expect it to be cold. There are a few files I want to grab while I’m down at the library, including resyncing the blog and some GIS data for future mapping projects. 🗺The sun will be nice come tomorrow but it will be cold and get even colder as Friday rolls around. 🌬

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:09 pm with sun having an altitude of 29° from the due south horizon (-41.8° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 10.8 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. With the clouds, not much for shadows today. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 4:21 pm with the sun in the west-southwest (238°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-southwest (246°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 5:03 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 11 seconds with dusk around 5:32 pm, which is one minute and 18 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At dusk you’ll see the Wolf Full 🌝 Moon in the east-northeast (73°) at an altitude of 18° from the horizon, 241,096 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 6:07 pm. At sunset, look for snow 🌨 and temperatures around 32 degrees. There will be a northwest breeze at 9 mph. Tomorrow will have 9 hours and 51 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 14 seconds over today.

Tonight will have a chance of snow showers, mainly before 10pm. Mostly cloudy 🌧, with a low of 20 degrees at 5am. Five degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around February 25th. Maximum wind chill around 9 at 6am; Northwest wind 6 to 8 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible. In 2020, we had cloudy skies in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 31 degrees. The record low of -16 occurred back in 2005.

Cool this weekend with temperatures running 11 degrees below normal but otherwise sunny. 😃 Saturday, sunny, with a high near 17. Sunday, mostly sunny, with a high near 24. Typical average high for the weekend is 31 degrees. It’s going to be pretty cold this weekend. This weekend though it doesn’t look like it’s going to be particularly breezy, so I’d like to get outside and do something fun, maybe not super far from home so I don’t end up burning that much gas.

🌹🌻🌼Only 52 days remain until the first day of calendar spring!🌹🌻🌼 Friday, my birthday will mark 50 days until spring. It’s kind of fun counting down the days, as it makes it seem like the days are going by quicker.

As previously noted, there are 2 weeks until Clean Your Computer Day 🧹 when the sun will be setting at 5:21 pm with dusk at 5:50 pm. It took forever to get Winders cleaned up on my laptop, but it seems to work good now. Never did get Virtual Box working though, so I’m thinking of removing that. On that day in 2020, we had snow showers, cloudy, mild and temperatures between 41 and 32 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 33 degrees. We hit a record high of 53 back in 1955.