January 19, 2017 11 PM Update
Good evening! Cloudy and 36 degrees in Delmar, NY. Calm wind.The skies will clear tomorrow around 7 am.
Tonight will have patchy fog after 1am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with a low of 30 degrees at 2am. 16 degrees above normal. Light northwest wind. In 2016, it got down to 16 degrees under mostly cloudy skies. The record low of -22 occurred back in 1970.
Last Quarter Moon tonight with 48% illuminated. The moon will rise around 11:14 pm. The New Moon is on Saturday, January 28th with mostly cloudy expected. The Full βSnowβ Moon is on Saturday, February 11th. The sun will rise at 7:19 am with the first light at 6:48 am, which is 39 seconds earlier then yesterday. Tonight will have 14 hours and 25 minutes of darkness, a decrease of 1 minutes and 55 seconds over last night.
Tomorrow will be partly sunny, with a high of 40 degrees at 4pm. 10 degrees above normal. Calm wind becoming southeast around 6 mph in the afternoon. Not a half bad day for Inauguration Day. A year ago, we had mostly cloudy skies and a high of 30 degrees. The record high of 53 was set in 2006. 8.7 inches of snow fell back in 1978.
Right now, the weekend looks to be fairly cloudy but warm. Saturday, a slight chance of rain before 8am, then a slight chance of drizzle between 8am and 9am. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 46. Light and variable wind. Chance of precipitation is 20%. Sunday, a chance of rain, mainly after 4pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 42. Chance of precipitation is 30%.Typical average high for the weekend is 30 degrees.
In four weeks on February 16 the sun will be setting at 5:29 pm, which is 36 minutes later then tonight. In 2016 on that day, we had fog, rain and temperatures between 56 and 18 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 35 and 17 degrees. The record high of 61 degrees was set back in 2006.
Looking ahead, Ground Hog Day is in 2 weeks, Average High is 60 is in 3 months and Start of June is in 19 weeks.