Good evening! Snow showers and 33 degrees in Delmar. ❄ Still just a light breeze around, 7 mph from the northwest. The really strong stuff is still a ways off. There are 6 inches of snow on the ground. ☃ We had some melting mid-day with the rain, but we got a few extra inches this evening. ️The skies will clear tomorrow around 10 am.

The big dramatic snow storm was well whatever. ⛄ Maybe enough snow to make snow men, but I don’t know. The sidewalks were fine for both the morning and evening walks, 🏃 I got in 5.6 miles today. The office was closed today from the snow 📚 so I stayed home and did several hours of reading. The evening walk — which I did around 5 PM was pretty cold and wet with really sloppy snow. And mid-day it was all rain. Cleaned my truck off twice today of snow, and shoveled out the turn around so I shouldn’t have any more to do come Sunday.

One week until calendar spring. 📆 It’s still possible we get yet another snow storm, but after March 15th the snow fall records get smaller and smaller and in recent decades, there is less and less of a record of significant snow falls. Today certainly wasn’t a record breaking snow fall. Maybe in higher elevations, I heard they got more in the Adirondacks. The strong winds and blizzard like conditions have yet to happen. Maybe the wind will pick up over night, we could even loose power but I have my doubts. And by then I’ll be soundly asleep. 🛌

Tonight will snow, mainly before midnight. 🌨 Low of 28 degrees at 6am. Typical for tonight. Blustery, with a northwest wind 18 to 21 mph, with gusts as high as 37 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. Total nighttime snow accumulation of 1 to 3 inches possible. In 2022, we had mostly clear 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 1 occurred back in 1993.

Tonight will have a Last Quarter 🌗 Moon with 49% illuminated. The Blue 🌝 Moon is on Friday, March 31. The darkest hour is at 1:06 am, followed by dawn at 6:43 am, and sun starting to rise at 7:11 am in the east (93°) and last for 2 minutes and 54 seconds. Sunrise is one minute and 43 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌄 The golden hour ends at 7:48 am with sun in the east (99°). Tonight will have 12 hours and 4 minutes of darkness, a decrease of 2 minutes and 55 seconds over last night.

The morning walk tomorrow will not be pleasant. 🚶‍♀️I think that just the fact of the matter. But I’ll bundle up and get moving. I will survive. It’s been 55 days now of walking 5 miles or more each day. So I don’t want to break the record any time soon if I can avoid it. It might be hard come later in March though with my work schedule but I’ll do the best I can.

Tomorrow will be partly sunny 🌞, with a high of 36 degrees at 4pm. Nine degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around February 17th. Breezy, with a northwest wind 17 to 22 mph, with gusts as high as 47 mph. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies in the morning with a few breaks of sun the afternoon. The high last year was 53 degrees. The record high of 72 was set in 2019. 10.4 inches of snow fell back in 1916.❄

Two weeks ago I bought some low fat vanilla yogurt as a snack. A small bowl 🍧is 80 or maybe 100 calories and I finally opened it up and it was delicious 😋. It’s a tub with 5 servings so what it means plastic garbage it’s not that much and those polypropylene containers burn fine. 🔥 Not going to be an every day thing though as it has some added sugar so I have to be careful about that and make sure to limit the portion size and just add extra fruit. But the vanilla taste is amazing.

Today in 1900, the Gold Standard Act is ratified, 💱 placing United States currency on the gold standard. It would last until the 1930s when the widely held belief was the gold standard was too restrictive on the economy and limited the ability of the government to stimulate or slow the economy, as now is the case with the battle against inflation. Truth is the economy had grown too big for pegging currency to gold, 💰 by the time Breton Woods rolled around, they really didn’t have much of an ability to continue it. And truth be told, I’ve always though buying gold is like putting all your money in one basket — really it’s a commodity and one with limited use beside the desire of some to hoard it. Jewelry and computer chips really are the only real use of gold, besides hoarding which can be fickle.

In four weeks on April 11 the sun will be setting in the west-northwest (282°) at 7:33 pm,🌄 which is 32 minutes and 12 seconds later then tonight. In 2022 on that day, we had mostly sunny, rain showers and temperatures between 61 and 29 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 57 and 35 degrees. The record high of 87 degrees was set back in 2017.

Looking ahead, First Day of Spring 💮 is Next Tuesday, Average High is 50 🌸 is Next Tuesday, Mothers Day 👩‍ is in 2 months, Primary Day 🗳️ is in 14 weeks, Independence Day 🇺🇸 is in 16 weeks, World Population Day 👩‍👩‍👧‍👧 is in 17 weeks, National Nude Day 👱 is in 4 months, August 🌻 is in 20 weeks, Halloween 🎃 is in 33 weeks, Average High is 50 🍂 is in 8 months, Election Day 🗳️ is in 8 months, Repeal of Prohibition Day 🍺 is in 38 weeks and Boxing Day 🥊 is in 41 weeks.