Good morning! Yeah, it’s Friday! Mostly clear and 28 degrees in Delmar, NY. 🌅 There is a south-southwest breeze at 5 mph. 🍃. There are 5 inches of snow on the ground. ☃ ️Things will start to thaw out at around 11 am. 🌡️

With the clear skies ☀ you can really see how much more daylight we’ve gained in recent days. Makes the morning walk the most pleasant. Makes up for the Great Coffee Disaster of 2023 where I knocked over the coffee pot ☕ and coffee and grounds went everywhere. Still need to do more cleaning of that when I get back home.

Today will have a chance of snow showers, mainly between noon and 4pm. Mostly cloudy 🌞, with a high of 36 degrees at 2pm. Three degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around February 14th. South wind 5 to 7 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. Total daytime snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible. A year ago, we had light snow in the morning with more sun in the afternoon. The high last year was 28 degrees. The record high of 62 was set in 1974. 9.3 inches of snow fell back in 1963.❄

Dental cleaning is first on the agenda 🪥🦷 Then propane and food and supplies for camp, then load things in my truck and be off to camp ⛺. I don’t know how much snow I’ll be digging out but I have that good shovel, get some wood and maybe have some time to ski 🎿 before dark. Days are getting longer now.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:09 pm with sun having an altitude of 28.9° from the due south horizon (-41.9° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 10.9 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 4:20 pm with the sun in the west-southwest (238°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-southwest (245°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 5:02 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 12 seconds with dusk around 5:32 pm, which is one minute and 17 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At dusk you’ll see the First Quarter 🌓 Moon in the south (188°) at an altitude of 56° from the horizon, 236,890 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 6:07 pm. At sunset, look for mostly cloudy skies ☁ and temperatures around 33 degrees. There will be a south breeze at 5 mph. Tomorrow will have 9 hours and 52 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 13 seconds over today.

It looks like we will have one more week of the mild weather ☀ and then like clock 🕒 work the Ground Hog will see his shadow 🐻 and it will be six more weeks of winter. Too cold to snow for a while but then it looks like for the second half of the month warm up a bit and get one of those crazy March snow 🌨 storms. I wouldn’t stick a fork into winter yet, National Greed needs their profits.

Tonight will have a chance of snow showers, mainly after 5am. Mostly cloudy 🌧, with a low of 23 degrees at 5am. Eight degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around March 5th. South wind 5 to 13 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible. In 2022, we had light snow. It got down to 9 degrees. The record low of -16 occurred back in 2005.

Tomorrow will have a slight chance of snow showers before 9am. Mostly cloudy 🌦, with a high of 42 degrees at 3pm. Nine degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around March 6th. South wind 13 to 17 mph becoming west in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 29 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%. A year ago, we had light snow in the morning with more sun in the afternoon. The high last year was 24 degrees. The record high of 56 was set in 1916. 9.6 inches of snow fell back in 1897.❄

Looking ahead to Sunday, a chance of snow before 10am, then a chance of rain and snow between 10am and 11am, then a chance of rain after 11am. Cloudy, with a high near 43. South wind 9 to 15 mph. Chance of precipitation is 50%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. 🌥 Typical average high for the weekend is 33 degrees.

Looking ahead, there are 2 weeks until Clean Your Computer Day 🧹 when the sun will be setting at 5:21 pm with dusk at 5:49 pm. Yeah, no more walking home in the pitch black. On that day in 2022, we had partly cloudy, snow showers and temperatures between 25 and 12 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 35 degrees. We hit a record high of 53 back in 1955.