Good morning! Happy Saturday. A beautiful start to our weekend. Two weeks to 8 PM Dusk 🌆 . That will be good on nice days when I want to go down to park to read in the evening. Partly sunny and 49 degrees in Delmar, NY. Calm wind. Temperatures will drop below freezing at Tuesday around 1 am. ☃️ Not a real warm morning, but my windows are open because I woke up last night and wanted some fresh air. With the windows open, I slept like a baby.

Today will be sunny 🌞, with a high of 58 degrees at 3pm. Nine degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around April 14th. Breezy though. Northwest wind 7 to 11 mph, with gusts as high as 21 mph. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies in the morning with sunny skies in the afternoon. The high last year was 60 degrees. The record high of 78 was set in 1998. 6.7 inches of snow fell back in 1959.❄

A little chilly this morning, but not bad for late March. I am going to head out to Partridge Run and do another road walk in upper part of the public hunting grounds with my binoculars seeing what kind of birds and wildlife I can spot. I think because the woods is so wet at this point, I’ll stay lately on trails to avoid tromping through the muck. Probably with the sun there will be plenty of wildlife to see out hiking today. Then I told my parents I would visit today, as they’re going to be out and about on Sunday. Which is fine because tomorrow sure seems like a good day to stay home with heavy, but needed rain coming. Rained a lot a few days this past week, but we are still quite short and the long range suggests we might have a bit of dry spell ahead.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 1:01 pm with sun having an altitude of 50.1° from the due south horizon (-20.7° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 5 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 6:39 pm with the sun in the west (268°). 📸 The sunset is in the west (275°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 7:16 pm after setting for 2 minutes and 54 seconds with dusk around 7:44 pm, which is one minute and 9 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At dusk you’ll see the Full 🌝 Moon in the east (99°) at an altitude of 18° from the horizon, 230,346 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 8:18 pm. At sunset, look for partly clear skies 🌄 and temperatures around 54 degrees. There will be a calm wind. Today will have 12 hours and 30 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 54 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will be partly cloudy 🌤, with a low of 42 degrees at 6am. 12 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around April 28th. Calm wind becoming southeast 5 to 7 mph after midnight. In 2020, we had clear skies in the evening, which became partly cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 30 degrees. The record low of 3 occurred back in 1923. One more mild night. Tomorrow will be seasonable or a few degrees above normal with rain, then cold but clear the rest of the day.

Tomorrow is going to rain, 🌧 so I’ll stay home most likely and finish up the book I’m reading about goat farming 🐐 and maybe work on some mapping and coding projects. Monday I’ll probably go shopping at lunch time. then spend the balance of day at the library, although I may have to run home and drop the groceries off as it’s going to be too warm at this point to leave groceries in the back of the truck all afternoon.

I have been moving more towards using Leaflet maps to replace certain less interactive maps on the blog lately. This saves space on the blog and is much more flexible and provides a better user experience — faster loads, zoom in and out, and so forth — using ArcMap and WMS/tile servers to load things on the fly. Plus no local storage on my webhost. One thing I haven’t gotten working yet is side-by-side maps using ArcMap Imageservers — it might be possible but I haven’t gotten it working right in leaflet. While I have unlimited space on my webhost, I’m trying to clear out some of the old and replaced content — both to minimize impact on server and syncing locally, and to ensure outdated content isn’t popping up in peoples web searches of the blog.

As previously noted, there are 2 weeks until 8 PM Dusk 🌆 when the sun will be setting at 7:31 pm. On that day in 2020, we had partly sunny, snow showers and temperatures between 48 and 37 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 56 degrees. We hit a record high of 86 back in 1922.