February 29, 2016 Night

Good evening. A pleasant evening for the extended day in February with temperatures around 35 degrees under partly to mostly cloudy skies. Calm wind.

All and all I think it’s been a pretty good if not anticlimactic day. Things generally went well, especially for it being a Monday. I’m on my way home, then I’ll probably go for the evening walk.

Depending on the clouds, it shouldn’t be a bad night for looking at the stars. Tonight we will have a Waining Gibbous Moon with 53% illuminated. It will rise at 11:45 pm. The Last Quarter Moon is tomorrow and the New Moon is on March 9th.

Tonight we are looking at a low around 25 degrees and a chance of snow showers but generally partly cloudy for most of the nights. The breeze will pick up later.

Partly cloudy conditions continue tomorrow, with temperatures expected to be a seasonable 38 degrees, which is about normal for March 1st.

Tomorrow the sun will rise at 6:28 am with the first light at 6:00 am, which is 1 minutes and 38 seconds earlier then today. It should be a bright and sunny morning, making it easy to get up and going for work.

Tonight will have 12 hours and 43 minutes of darkness, a decrease of 2 minutes and 52 seconds over last night. In about three weeks we will see less darkness then light, which will be a nice change but also remember that Daylight Savings Time starts one week from Sunday on the 13th.

I hope you had a pretty good extended month of February. It’s been a pretty mild month this year, but it’s typically the harshest month of the year at least on the Albany area.