Good afternoon! Snow showers and 33 degrees in Delmar, NY. Light easterly breeze. The skies will clear Monday around 2 pm. First snow showers of the year.

For the first time since Monday night I am back down to the library where I can post things and upload new content to the blog. I’ve been so sick during the second half of this week with the cold, but finally on Saturday the cold is receding and I’m starting to actually feel half decent. In other words, half great. Which is decidedly different from being healthy. It’s just a cold but it’s not disappearing as quickly as I would have hoped. I think by the time I have to back to work I will be feeling better. But it’s going to be mad cold next week.

This afternoon will have snow showers, especially after 5pm. Cloudy, with a high of 33 degrees at 2pm. Four degrees below normal. Calm wind. Chance of precipitation is 60%. Total daytime snow accumulation of less than one inch possible. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies with more clouds in the afternoon. The high last year was 33 degrees. The record high of 62 was set in 1966. 7.3 inches of snow fell back in 2009. Just a dusting today, nothing like that day almost a decade ago now.

The sun will set at 4:22 pm with dusk around 4:53 pm, which is 2 seconds later than yesterday. At sunset, look for cloudy conditions and 31 degrees. There will be a calm wind. Today will have 9 hours and 7 minutes of daytime, a decrease of 51 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will snow likely, mainly before 9pm. Cloudy, with a low of 24 degrees at 5am. One degree above normal. Calm wind becoming northwest around 5 mph after midnight. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New snow accumulation of less than one inch possible. In 2016, we had partly cloudy skies. It got down to 16 degrees. The record low of -4 occurred back in 1902.

I hope the snow holds off, because I have absolutely no groceries at home. I am out of milk, eggs, cheese, and I ate the last can of soup I had at home. The freezer is mostly empty, with even the frozen meals I had stored for months being gone. All that’s really left is some ice. I don’t even have coffee. I decided to not grocery shopping after camping, and most of the week I’ve been too sick to get out shopping. I guess I can always get milk at Stewarts and just get creative with dinner. I do have some canned vegetables, stuffing, and what looks like to be a five year old pork chop in the freezer. Maybe that would be good, so I can use that stuff up.

It is totally my fault that I got so sick, as I probably should have not gone into work for the first half of the week, and given myself a little time to recover before I got so sick. I didn’t feel all that great on Monday or Tuesday, but then again I hardly ever feel that great on Monday, and some congestion isn’t not uncommon for me going inside a warm building after camping all weekend in the cold. sitting next to a campfire, breathing in all that smoke. I can’t call into work every day I feel the least bit marginal in the morning.

Not sure what I am going to do tomorrow. It looks like it will be frigid with the expected wind chill. The mercury won’t be that cold at 36 but look at those winds. I want to keep working on the solar panel, but not climbing up on the roof my truck when the wind is whipping around. I’d also like to go for a hike, but even bundled up, while recovering from a cold, that probably isn’t recommended.

Looking ahead, there are 8 weeks until The Day the Music Died when the sun will be setting at 5:12 pm with dusk at 5:41 pm. Bye, Bye, Ms. American Pie. On that day in 2017, we had cloudy skies and temperatures between 30 and 19 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 32 degrees. We hit a record high of 57 back in 2016.