It’s a relative thing and indeed it’s going to cool off by afternoon and turn to snow and rain by evening. But I figure it should be a pleasant morning bike ride this morning, not so cold for a change. Makes up for the bone chilling ride yesterday.

Good morning! Mostly cloudy and 35 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☁ There is a west-southwest breeze at 6 mph. 🍃. Nice, saves on the heat. There are 2 inches of snow on the ground. ☃ ️Won’t be long before the bike path is free of snow again. Temperatures will drop below freezing at around 4 pm. ☃️

Johnnycakes this morning 🍳 with spinach and broccoli 🥦 topped with cottage cheese and nutritional yeast. No onions this time but jalapeños and turmeric in the mix. Lots of fiber and protein from the egg and cottage cheese. Then had with a grapefruit 🟠. I decided against kneading bread last night 🍞, been trying to cut back a bit on the carbs and I was tired 😴 aftera my evening walk 🚶.

Out riding this morning 🚲, not so cold. Recharged the bike lights up yesterday 🔦, they get a lot of use with the dark mornings though lately they’ve not been quite as dark as slowly but surely the days are getting longer even on cloudy days like today. Important to be seen on these dark winter mornings out riding early. 🌃

Today will have a chance of snow before 1pm, then snow, possibly mixed with rain. 🌧 High of 36 degrees at 11am. Four degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around February 14th. West wind 5 to 7 mph becoming north in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 80%. Total daytime snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible. A year ago, we had light snow in the morning, which became light snow by afternoon. The high last year was 34 degrees. The record high of 64 was set in 1906. 10.6 inches of snow fell back in 1963.❄

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:08 pm with sun having an altitude of 27.8° from the due south horizon (-43° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 11.4 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. Midday sun is getting higher in the sky. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 4:14 pm with the sun in the west-southwest (237°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-southwest (244°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 4:57 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 14 seconds with dusk around 5:27 pm, which is one minute and 15 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At dusk you’ll see the Full 🌝 Moon in the east-northeast (75°) at an altitude of 25° from the horizon, 244,938 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 6:02 pm. At sunset, look for rain 🌧 and snow 🌨 and temperatures around 34 degrees. There will be a north-northwest breeze at 5 mph. Tomorrow will have 9 hours and 43 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 2 seconds over today.

Almost missed the express bus 🚍 home though maybe I could have caught it at the Capitol or had to take the 18 home. 🏡 If that happens occasionally it’s not the end of the world. Ron was driving the shuttle yesterday and he was running late and the express was running early and there was a school 🚸 bus and a lot of traffic on Erie Boulevard last night. The transfer is tight so I’m not surprised. 🤨 Still I prefer it to driving 🚘 especially in bad weather like tonight. But I’m looking forward to bike trail being snow free so I can bicycle 🚲 to work and not have to pay the bus fare.

Tonight will snow, possibly mixed with rain before 2am, then snow likely between 2am and 4am, then snow likely, possibly mixed with freezing rain after 4am. 🌨 Low of 30 degrees at 11pm. 15 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around March 27th. Light and variable wind becoming southeast around 6 mph after midnight. Chance of precipitation is 80%. Little or no ice accumulation expected. New snow accumulation of 1 to 2 inches possible. Kind of a mixed bag. In 2023, we had light snow in the evening, which became cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 31 degrees. The record low of -17 occurred back in 1948.

I guess it depends on how cold ❄ it is when I get home if I do an evening walk 🚶 though I would like to keep up that habit. I don’t want to walk in the rain ☔ but I’ll walk in the snow 🌨. After such a lazy weekend I’m trying to boost my exercise program but it’s tough especially to do the cardio without the stairs of the office downtown. Friday I have training downtown so I can do the stairs then as I plan to spend the balance of the day in offices downtown.

Mild but rainy later ☔ this weekend. Saturday, mostly cloudy, with a high near 44. Could be a nice day for a ride on my bike out in the country. Sunday, rain likely. Cloudy, with a high near 40. Chance of precipitation is 60%. Typical average high for the weekend is 33 degrees.

Looking ahead, there are 2 weeks until Save the Pine Bush Turns 46 🦋 when the sun will be setting at 5:16 pm with dusk at 5:44 pm. Gaining quite a bit of light in the evening. On that day in 2023, we had partly sunny and temperatures between 41 and 21 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 34 degrees. We hit a record high of 55 back in 1991.