Good evening! Mostly clear and 24 degrees in Delmar, NY. 🌌There is a northwest breeze at 14 mph. The current wind chill is 12. It was a somewhat chilly evening waiting out for the bus. It’s nice going home and it’s not already pitch black. 

Tonight will be mostly clear, with a low of 11 degrees at 4am. 🌠Four degrees below normal. Maximum wind chill around 9 at 6pm; Northwest wind 5 to 10 mph becoming light west after midnight. In 2017, we had cloudy skies. It got down to 36 degrees. The record low of -17 occurred back in 1920.

Tonight will have a Waxing Gibbous Moon 🌖with 64% illuminated. The moon will set tonight at 1:54 am. The Blue Moon is on Tuesday night with mostly cloudy skies. The sun will rise at 7:15 am with the first light at 6:44 am, which is 51 seconds earlier than yesterday. Tonight will have 14 hours and 13 minutes of darkness, a decrease of 2 minutes and 10 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will be sunny, with a high of 31 degrees at 2pm. ☀Typical for tomorrow. Calm wind becoming southeast around 6 mph in the afternoon. A year ago, we had cloudy skies with some clearing in the afternoon. The high last year was 48 degrees. The record high of 59 was set in 1950. 8.5 inches of snow fell back in 1949.

Right now, a split verdict on the weekend. Saturday, a slight chance of showers after 4pm. ⛅Partly sunny, with a high near 48. South wind 7 to 13 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%. Sunday, a chance of rain and snow showers before 8am, then a chance of rain showers. Partly sunny, with a high near 45⛅💧. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. Typical average high for the weekend is 31 degrees.

I noticed that my Christmas Cactus is starting to bloom again. 🌺Last week I moved from a desk with less sunlight to one that has a lot more southernly and westerly exposure to the sun. Not only do I have a great view in my new office of the Catskill Mountains and the Heldebergs, my plant is really loving all the extra sunlight. My new desk is really nice, I get to see the sun set every night. 

Taking an old NOVA bus home tonight but it seems to be running fine. 🚌 Those NOVA busses are old mules, they keep on running pretty good for a long time. Traffic is light on the 787 at least southbound. Not so true going northbound. 

I think I’ve figured out how to move some of the strings in my Arduino display project into PROGRAM ROM flash, which should sufficent ample resources remain to finish my display project.📺 I want to add some code to blink a few LEDs on and off for ambience but I expect to be done shortly. Now it’s just off to building the case this weekend. Once I have a case, I’ll order the Arduino Nano which I plan to use to permanently run it which will be more efficient. I am looking forward to moving on to further projects. 

I haven’t decided whether I will walk down to the library or just go for a walk tonight, but I do want to stretch my legs after dinner.🏃 I may play around with cutting some of the plexiglass tonight. I should bring it in from my truck, it is probably really cold. 🚘

In four weeks on February 22 the sun will be setting at 5:37 pm, which is 36 minutes and 27 seconds later then today. In 2017 on that day, we had rain, partly cloudy skies and temperatures between 57 and 38 degrees. 😮Typically, you have temperatures between 36 and 19 degrees. The record high of 68 degrees was set back in 1997.

Looking ahead, Memorial Day Weekend Starts is in 4 months.🌼🌻 We may be in the dark of winter but it won’t last. I’m looking forward to some nicer days as spring approaches, even if that means dealing with the Black Flies. 🐜

This afternoon I was looking at some of the photos on my screensaver and was thinking I really miss traveling and seeing places. This year if the weather is nice in mid-April I might take a trip to the North County. 🌄 Haven’t been up there in a while.