Good morning! Happy Average High is 60 🌷! Three weeks to Mothers Day 👩‍ . Soon time to get the Frank Zappa record out 🎼 while looking at the tulips at Washington Park. Mostly cloudy with a few breaks of sun and 42 degrees in Delmar, NY. ⛅ Calm wind.

Today will be partly sunny 🌞, with a high of 59 degrees at 2pm. One degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around April 17th. Northwest wind 3 to 8 mph. A year ago, we had cloudy skies in the morning with more sun in the afternoon. The high last year was 49 degrees. The record high of 90 was set in 1976. 2.7 inches of snow fell back in 1887.❄

No big plans for today, but after I take my shower 🛀 I’m thinking of hiking down to Van Dyke Preserve and then back out to Five Rivers. 🐦 I also have some coding projects I’m working on, along with fixing a long-standing bug in the blog code that occasionally causes posts to appear too early or stick on the front page when they shouldn’t appear. Kind of the same thing I did yesterday, spending several hours looking at birds and wildlife at Five Rivers, although with the cold wet weather, there were fewer wildlife but I think I spotted a piebald deer 🦌 but he was gone before I could get a picture.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:55 pm with sun having an altitude of 58.3° from the due south horizon (-12.5° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 3.7 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 7:03 pm with the sun in the west (280°). 📸

The sunset is in the west-northwest (286°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 7:41 pm after setting for 3 minutes with dusk around 8:10 pm, which is one minute and 9 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At dusk you’ll see the First Quarter 🌓 Moon in the west-southwest (243°) at an altitude of 61° from the horizon, 245,556 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 8:46 pm. At sunset, look for partly cloudy skies 🌃 and temperatures around 53 degrees. There will be a west-northwest breeze at 5 mph. Today will have 13 hours and 32 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 44 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will be partly cloudy 🌓, with a low of 39 degrees at 4am. Typical for tonight. West wind around 5 mph becoming calm after midnight. In 2020, we had clear skies in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 28 degrees. The record low of 18 occurred back in 1875.

Found another real long-standing bug on the blog. 🐞 For years, I’ve had issues with posts appearing too early and staying sticky on the blog. Turns out I was just missing the GMT date field on my blog, when creating new blog posts programmatically, Not sure how I missed that but I’ve been coding things incorrectly for years on the blog.

Been having more problems with my credit card. 💳 I went to buy milk yesterday, 🥛 and I was locked out of the card, with it declined at the retailer and I ended up paying cash. I got home and saw a few pending charges I did not make, so it looks like my card has been hacked again — only had the new card for a week and only so far bought milk with it and went to Walmart twice. I didn’t think it was that easy to hack the chip-on-cards as they use one-time tokens, and I haven’t swiped anywhere yet. Monitoring for other pending charges, but so far nothing. Hoping I won’t have to get yet another card. Need to get this figured out as I have to renew my cellphone/hotspot by Wednesday. Aggravating to say the least, especially as I don’t do much online shopping but I like the convenience of not having to have exact change.

Really hoping next week to get out of town. 🏕 It looks like by then the snow will be gone, and while Sunday is problematic, I think the weather will be a lot better for Saturday. 😎 Things could shift weather-wise, but I’m hopeful. Not sure if I will drive up north on Friday after my therapy session, or wait for Saturday morning early to head north and hike then camp. 🚘 Kind of would like to do two nights. It just seems like every weekend that I have free it turns out to be cloudy and rainy. And then we don’t end up getting much rain at all.

As previously noted, there are 3 weeks until Mothers Day 👩‍ when the sun will be setting at 8:04 pm with dusk at 8:36 pm. On that day in 2020, we had cold, partly sunny and temperatures between 45 and 33 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 67 degrees. We hit a record high of 93 back in 1979.