Good morning! Happy Sunday. ☺

Smile, it’s going to be a nice day and not a work day for once. Walked 65.3 miles last week, doing my best to continue that record this week.

Mostly cloudy and 39 degrees in Delmar as I walk down to Norman’s Kills Falls. ⛅ There is a southwest breeze at 10 mph. 🍃. A bit chilly and damp this morning but it will improve later on.

I was impressed that I walked 65.3 miles last week and I’m at mile 200 for the month. 🚶 It feels good as is quiting processed foods and processed sugars. The worse thing is reducing the pushers that keep trying to push the crap down your throat. Now I finally understand what the DARE program was about, resisting that crap friends and families try to ram down your throat. 🐑 It’s only doughnuts 🍩, what’s wrong with shooting a little heroin, I mean sugar once and a while.

Today will be partly sunny 🌞, with a high of 53 degrees at 3pm. Four degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around April 2nd. West wind 10 to 17 mph, with gusts as high as 28 mph. A year ago, we had partly cloudy skies in the morning, which became light rain by afternoon. The high last year was 50 degrees. The record high of 75 was set in 2021. 6.1 inches of snow fell back in 1899.❄

While I was hoping to hike the rail trail 🚂 without getting runover by yuppies 🏃 I knew that was unlikely. It will be a complete orgy of yuppie shit later on but I hope to be off the trail by then and eating either lunch or hiking Bennett Hill by then.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 1:02 pm with sun having an altitude of 49.5° from the due south horizon (-21.3° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 5.1 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 6:37 pm with the sun in the west (268°). 📸

The sunset is in the west (274°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 7:14 pm after setting for 2 minutes and 54 seconds with dusk around 7:42 pm, which is one minute and 8 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At dusk you’ll see the First Quarter 🌓 Moon in the west-southwest (250°) at an altitude of 56° from the horizon, 245,341 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 8:16 pm. At sunset, look for mostly clear skies 🌄 and temperatures around 47 degrees. There will be a northwest breeze at 8 mph. Today will have 12 hours and 28 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 53 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will be mostly clear 🌃, with a low of 31 degrees at 6am. One degree above normal, which is similar to a typical night around March 30th. Northwest wind 5 to 8 mph. In 2022, we had cloudy skies. It got down to 22 degrees. The record low of 11 occurred back in 1974.

Looking ahead , there are 2 weeks until 7:30 PM Sunset 🌇 with dusk at 7:58 pm. On that day in 2022, we had rain and temperatures between 52 and 36 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 56 degrees. We hit a record high of 77 back in 1991.