Good morning! Today is Good Friday ✝️! We remember the sacrifice of Jesus Christ for the common man and the evils of the Roman government. 😈 Three weeks to May 🕊. Cloudy and cold and 38 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☁ Breezy, ️17 mph breeze from the west 🌬 with gusts up to 30 mph 💨💨💨. That wind is whipping around this morning. Temperatures will drop below freezing at Sunday around 4 am. ☃️

Got milk at Stewart’s 🐮 and the clerk started coughing when I was checking out. I guess we are all so paranoid today as we don’t want to be quarantined or die. 💀I am wearing my Don’t Tread on Me shirt 👚 today that says, Live Free or Die on the back side. I saw the Meadow Brook Milk Delivery 🚚 truck as I walked down there. If I got milk delivered it would certainly mean a lot less plastic trash to either burn or recycle ♻. I really should consider supporting the local business although the plastic certainly is a lot more convenient during camping season. 🔥

Today will have a chance of showers. Mostly cloudy 🌦, with a high of 46 degrees at 1pm. 10 degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around March 21st. Breezy, with a west wind 17 to 23 mph, with gusts as high as 41 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. A year ago, we had cloudy skies in the morning with a few breaks of sun the afternoon. The high last year was 50 degrees. The record high of 86 was set in 1922. 5.7 inches of snow fell back in 1961.❄

All I can say is yuck. 💨 It seems like today will be a good day to stay home 🏡 and make the politicians and bureaucrats happy. I really was hoping to get out camping up north ⛺ and then closer to home but not if the weather all weekend is going to shit. 💩 Maybe next weekend we’ll get better weather.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:57 pm with sun having an altitude of 55.6° from the due south horizon (-15.3° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 4.1 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 6:55 pm with the sun in the west (276°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-northwest (282°) starting at 7:29 pm and lasts for 2 minutes and 58 seconds with dusk around 8:01 pm, which is one minute and 8 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 The best time to look at the stars is after 8:36 pm. At sunset, look for rain 🌧 and temperatures around 41 degrees. Breezy, 21 mph breeze ⛅ from the west-northwest with gusts up to 36mph. Today will have 13 hours and 11 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 48 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will have a slight chance of rain showers, mixing with snow after midnight, then gradually ending. Mostly cloudy 🌧, with a low of 33 degrees at 3am. Three degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical night around April 5th. Breezy, with a northwest wind 13 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 33 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%. In 2019, we had mostly clear skies in the evening, which became partly cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 29 degrees. The record low of 20 occurred back in 1874.

Tomorrow will be mostly sunny 🌞, with a high of 49 degrees at 2pm. Seven degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around March 27th. West wind 15 to 18 mph, with gusts as high as 32 mph. A year ago, we had cloudy skies in the morning with a few breaks of sun the afternoon. The high last year was 50 degrees. The record high of 87 was set in 2017. 1.7 inches of snow fell back in 1942.❄

Even with tomorrow’s forecast it’s not going to be real nice and warm with the sun ☀. I don’t mind 50 degree weather but wherever I go in the mountains it’s going to be much colder. It guess if it was a regular weekend I might have considered it but I am willing to wait for nicer weather. As I was planning earlier in the week, I should go to Schodack Island or that bird 🐦 sanctuary on the river and buy groceries at Aldi’s. 🍏 I’m really into saving money 💵 and their better quality of food 🍲 for store brands compared to Hannaford or Shop Rite.

Looking ahead to Easter, partly sunny at least early, with a high near 61. ☀ Light south wind increasing to 5 to 9 mph in the morning. Maximum dew point of 40 at 6pm. Typical average high for the weekend is 56 degrees.

I am not convinced that Easter will be super nice. 🐰 Maybe early on but I think clouds will push in early. Probably a good day to do my wash and maybe a hike on the rail trail to Normans Kill Falls assuming it’s not too crowded. Maybe later in the afternoon but I guess it depends when the rain pushes in. 💦